Newest update says nurse DID have slight fever ON THE PLANE. I know, I know....not airborne , .... How many of you get sick from recirculated air on a plane? I don't get sick often, but I tend to get ill after flights from time to time
Pressed on the question, he said: "She should not have traveled on a commercial airliner" and noted that "from this moment forward we will make sure that any individual who is being monitored" should not travel on public transportation.
Frieden said she had an elevated temperature on the flight home to Dallas (99.5F) , but short of the fever threshold. The CDC believes she presents a low risk to fellow passengers, he said.
The virus is not contagious until a person starts showing symptoms, and the likelihood of it being passed on an airplane is considered extremely low.
Judge Jenkins said during the news conference that the 47 original "contact traces" who had contact with Duncan, who died a week ago from the disease, were nearing the end of the Ebola incubation period and were all symptom-free. The possibility that any of them would become symptomatic at this point, he said, is "extremely remote."
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said that cleaning at the newest patient's apartment was "done as soon as possible" and that the patient "lived alone and without pets."
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