Amber Vinson Was Contagious for FOUR DAYS Before Her Official Diagnosis

Health officials believe Amber Vinson was contagious four days before her official diagnosis.

Two schools and a bridal wear shop in Cleveland, Ohio have been closed as a precaution after Amber Vinson had contact with people there.

The CDC believes she had a slight fever when she flew from Dallas to Cleveland, and that she may have been contagious as early as Friday of last week. She was officially diagnosed on Tuesday of this week, four days later.

President Obama commented on the Vinson case saying:


“It is very important that we are monitoring and tracking anyone who was in close proximity to this second nurse.” (source)

Officials are now tracking the contacts she made on that flight, and those she came into contact with in Ohio, as well as those people on the return flight to Dallas. Several of those passengers were themselves nurses, working it’s believed, at three hospitals in Cleveland. A statement released by two of the facilities said:

“Today, we learned that Cleveland Clinic and The MetroHealth System had employees – mostly nurses – aboard the Frontier flight from Dallas to Cleveland on October 10, returning from a nursing conference in Texas. That flight included the Dallas nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola when she returned to Dallas on October 13.

Both health systems have put all of our employees who were on that flight on paid leave while we will monitor their health daily. We are confident that these nurses are at low risk of exposure since we understand that the Dallas nurse did not have symptoms at the time. We have taken this measure as an extra precautionary step for our employees, patients, and visitors.

Cleveland Clinic, The MetroHealth System, and University Hospitals will be working closely together to keep our community safe and to work toward preventing the spread of the Ebola virus.” (source)

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