We really hope this beautiful lady survives this and get proper medical attention,a second Texas nurse who tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the virus had travelled by plane a day before she reported symptoms, U.S. health and airline officials said on Wednesday, adding that she should not have been on a commercial flight.
The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas had taken a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland, Ohio to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Monday, the officials said.
The woman, identified to Reuters by her grandmother as Amber Vinson, 29, was isolated immediately after reporting a fever on Tuesday, Texas Department of State Health Services officials said.
She was being transferred from the Dallas hospital to Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, which is one of four hospitals with specialized isolation units to care for Ebola with less risk of spreading to health care workers. Emory has treated three other Ebola patients, two of them have recovered and been released.
U.S. President Barack Obama abruptly postponed a political trip he was to make on Wednesday to stay at the White House to convene a high-level meeting about the Ebola outbreak.
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