2nd Nurse with Ebola Spoke to CDC, Reportedly Not Advised Against Flying

The second Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola reportedly contacted the CDC before flying commercial this week. A government spokesperson told NBC News that nurse Amber Vinson spoke to the agency because she had a slight fever and wasn’t sure if she should fly.

But as this person recounts, “Vinson was not told that she could not fly.” Earlier reports said she flew just a day before developing symptoms, and now the CDC is trying to find the other passengers she came in contact with (oh, and then there’s the fact that the plane was reused several times after her flight that the CDC is looking into also).

This morning CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said that Vinson “should not have traveled,” because as it turns out, she had a 99.5 degree temperature before boarding the plane. That being said, Frieden explained, “She did not vomit. She was not bleeding. So the level of risk of people around her should be extremely low.”

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