Ebola search expands in Ohio
CBSNews.com
October 17, 2014
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Health officials expanded their search for people who may have had contact with a Texas nurse diagnosed with Ebola to include another planeload of passengers and shoppers at an Ohio bridal store.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday broadened its search to identify those who may have been in contact with Amber Vinson as officials investigate whether the 29-year-old nurse had symptoms as far back as Saturday or possibly earlier.
Vinson had treated the Liberian man in Dallas who died of the disease, which is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids.
She visited family in the Akron area last weekend and flew Monday from Cleveland back to Dallas before being diagnosed with Ebola. Officials previously stressed that Vinson didn’t show symptoms during her Ohio visit, an important detail because people infected with Ebola aren’t considered contagious until they have symptoms.
One health official told CBS News’ Dr. Jon LaPook that “somebody dropped the ball” in telling Vinson it was okay for her to travel by air in spite of telling the CDC on multiple occasions before her flights that she had a fever.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Vinson called the agency several times before flying, saying that she had a temperature of 99.5 degrees. But because her fever wasn’t 100.4 degrees or higher, she didn’t officially fall into the group of “high risk” and was allowed to fly.
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