Dallas Ebola Nurse Amber Vinson 'Should Not Have Traveled,' CDC Head Says

NBC News ^ | October 15, 2014

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The latest Dallas nurse to contract Ebola boarded a plane in Cleveland two days ago with a slight fever and should not have flown, federal health officials said Wednesday.

Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters that the nurse had a temperature of 99.5 degrees before she got on the plane on Monday.

Because of that reading, and because she had treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States, the nurse should not have been on the plane, he said.

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

[Jim Noble]

OK, HERE is the current guidance for exposure management.

Please tell us, Dr. Frieden, what facts about her work put her in the "controlled movement" category? Inquiring minds want to know.

[WayneS]

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

Did she sneeze or cough?

Because, the last time I checked mucous and saliva are also in the subset of fluids known as 'bodily fluids'

[Carl Vehse]

She had a fever on that flight(99.5) nuff said, she spread her germs to everyone on board that flight

Wait... isn't a fever one of the symptoms of Ebola?!? And if she didn't bleed or vomit on the flight or in the airports, did she ever cough or sneeze or use the toilet on the plane or in the airports?

[RegulatorCountry]

Does the notion of a rapidly fatal infectious disease just not faze some people anymore? What is wrong, why don’t they see their own behavior as a possible problem? The judge, the tv personality in NJ, this nurse. What is it? Pretty certain all three are Democrat. They don’t believe they’re responsible for their own behavior?

[Rusty0604]

I thought Obama and the experts said it was safe to travel with ebola.

[Grampa Dave]

Yet, this elite liar, will not demand that his president stop flights from the Ebola ravaged countries.

[DCBryan1]

Right. They say 99.5. Was that before or after she took meds?

Yep........here is the thought process:

Dang....that dude I cleaned up after died!....I have to get back to work, but I feel terrible.....I ain't supposed to fly with a fever, but I know that ibuprofen will knock down that fever.....SO I CAN NOW FLY!"

Yippee......

[Paine in the Neck]

Duncan, Snyderman, Vinson. Who knows how many more Ebola Barrys are out there who know they've been in contact with ebola victims but take it upon themselves to share their experience with the rest of us?

[RegulatorCountry]

How do we know what her fever was on the flight?

Self-reported, probably. As if she doesn't have a huge motivation to understate it after the fact.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Its been reported on Fox News and CNN that she had a temperature of 99.5 before boarding and when she arrived in Dallas it spiked to 100.4 dont know how they know this

[Grampa Dave]

“How do we know what her fever was on the flight?”

Or before or after.

[tumblindice]

Yeah yeah, she shouldn’t have flown.

What exactly is the CDC doing if it isn’t making sure people exposed to Ebola are quarantined?
Blaming them for becoming infected? If so, the CDC is Obama’s Mini-me: no precautions, no oversight, no responsibility, nothing but finger-pointing.
“Manana man! Just leave us alone so we can draw our pay, benefits and pensions.” The CDC, IRS, EPA, NSA (etc. etc.)

[Lazamataz]

Your job is to arrive in foreign countries when out brakes occur and recommend the entire village and inhabitants be napalmed and incinerated before it spreads.

I think movies should be banned. They totally mess up how people view things.

[GreenHornet]

She had a fever on that flight(99.5) nuff said, she spread her germs to everyone on board that flight

In addition to the people on her flight, she was also in close proximity to a lot of other people in the airport terminal, baggage claim area, etc.

[Black Agnes]

Was it 99.5 after she took tylenol and 100.4 when she got to dallas and the tylenol was wearing off?

Did she not understand that ‘fever’ was a ‘symptom’?

How did she pass her nursing school courses?

[BuffaloJack]

Two Wrongs ...
1. She should have known better than to travel.
2. The CDC had not issued guidelines on travel at the time.

[databoss]

meanwhile Obama is having a meet and greet with something called the Cabinet...s group of people he has not seen since a March 2009 photo op....

[glock rocks]

White House says travel ban from African countries affected by Ebola is ‘not on the table’ because it would prevent supplies, personnel to the region - @Reuters

[Heart of Georgia]

Should not have traveled? Level of risk to others should be extremely low?! Is that all this moron has to say?

I want to know why the woman isn’t in quarantine, in Dallas, along with everyone else who came into contact with Duncan!

[hal ogen]

I’d go so far as to say that Clown Prince nobama “should not have traveled” here from his home country. That would have saved this country a lot of grief and destruction.