Ohio, Texas schools close amid Ebola scare

Both buildings to be disinfected after student traveled on flight to Cleveland

Several schools in Ohio and Texas canceled classes Thursday over concerns that staff members and some students might have come in contact with an Ebola-infected person.

An email sent to parents by the Solon City School District said they closed Solon Middle School and Parkside Elementary School in Ohio Thursday after they learned a middle school staff member may have traveled aboard the same airplane, though not the same flight, as Dallas nurse Amber Joy Vinson.

Vinson, 26, one of two nurses who contracted Ebola after caring for Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan, had returned to the Cleveland area to plan her wedding.

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