CDC Says It’s ‘Not Necessary’ to Release Ebola Patient’s Flight Information

Wednesday, October 1, 2014
By Paul Martin

By MEGHAN KENEALLY
ABCNews.com
Oct 1, 2014

The flight information for the Ebola patient diagnosed in Texas will not be released by health officials because “It’s just not necessary,” a spokesperson at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told ABC News.

The CDC announced that the man has tested positive for the disease, making him the first person to have discovered he had the virus while on U.S. soil, and they made it clear that he traveled from Liberia to America to visit family in Dallas.

“If we need to contact passengers we have a way. We’d call ourselves,” the CDC spokesperson said.

Even though the CDC will not release his flight plan from Liberia to the United States, it is clear that he would have had to make at least two transfers — including one in at least one other country.

Flights from the airport in the Liberian capital of Monrovia fly to only six destinations — four in West and Central Africa, one flight to Morocco and one flight to Brussels, Belgium. There are no direct flights into the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport from any of those six destinations, meaning that man had to make at least one more change.

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