CDC Claims That Second Dallas Nurse With Ebola Amber Vinson 'Should Not Have Traveled' To Ohio

The second Dallas nurse to contract Ebola, Amber Vinson is currently being sent to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, to be treated after boarding a plane from Cleveland, Ohio, back to Dallas Monday, Oct. 13, as she suffered from a mild fever, which should have prevented her from flying period, federal health officials at the CDC said Wednesday, Oct. 15.

According to CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront, Vinson was "monitoring her temperature when she called the CDC to ask if she could get on a plane, where she was told yes," she could travel.

Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, revealed that Vinson's temperature was 99.5 degrees before she boarded a plane Monday back to Dallas.

Vinson was traveling to Cleveland to prepare for her upcoming wedding.

"She flew into Cleveland to prepare for her wedding. She came in to visit her mother and her mother's fiance," Toinette Parrilla, director of the Cleveland Department of Public Health, explained about the 29-year-old.

Vinson, along with Nina Pham, treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States, who recently died from the virus.

"Because at that point she was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to Ebola, she should not have traveled on a commercial airline," Frieden admitted.

While in Ohio, Vinson stayed at her relatives' home. Her family members are employees of Kent State University, who released the statement below.

"She did not step foot on our campus," Kent State President Beverly Warren confirmed.

ABC reports that Vinson's relatives were asked to leave the university, sent home and requested to monitor themselves for the next 21 days.

Federal health officails are now trying to reach out to the 132 passengers on Frontier Airlines Flight 1143. Still, Frieden believes that's “an extremely low likelihood” that anyone on the flight contracted the Ebola virus.

“She did not vomit. She was not bleeding,” Frieden revealed. “So the level of risk of people around her should be extremely low.”

Vinson drew Duncan's blood, inserted catheters and dealt with his bodily fluids, according to Duncan's medical records in the Associated Press records.

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