Newest Ebola patient flew Frontier Airlines day before diagnosis
Dan Mangan
CNBC.com
Oct. 15, 2014
A second Dallas health-care worker has tested positive for Ebola, officials said Wednesday, as they also asked 132 people who flew with that infected woman on a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday to call the federal Centers for Disease Control.
Officials also warned that additional cases of the deadly virus at the Dallas hospital where the woman worked is “a very real possibility.”
“We have contingencies for more,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins during a briefing on the latest case, of a female employee of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan.
Jenkins said the second infected woman, who was not identified by name or job title, was isolated within 90 minutes of reporting a fever Tuesday. She is the third person diagnosed in the U.S. with Ebola, which is currently epidemic in three West African countries.
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