New Ebola patient to be transferred to Atlanta

Wednesday, October 15, 2014
By Paul Martin

Rick Jervis, Doug Stanglin and Liz Szabo
USA TODAY
October 15, 2014

DALLAS — A 29-year-old nurse who is the second Texas hospital worker to test positive for Ebola is “ill but clinically stable” and will be transferred late Wednesday to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Emory University Hospital ‘s Infectious Disease Unit is where the first two U.S. Ebola patients — both health missionary workers stationed in Liberia — were treated and released in August. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where the nurses work, has only three isolation units.

The announcement came only hours after the CDC confirmed that the nurse, identified by family members as Amber Vinson, had flown on a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas on the evening before she developed Ebola symptoms.

CDC director Thomas Frieden said she had violated CDC guidelines against anyone using public transport while undergoing self-monitoring for exposure to Ebola..

“We will from this moment forward ensure that no other individual who is being monitored for exposure undergoes travel in any way other than controlled movement,” Frieden said.

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