Ebola Update: Frequently Asked Questions About Dallas and Ohio Flights [2014]

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Ebola Update: Frequently Asked Questions About Dallas and Ohio Flights [2014]

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2014/10/18
By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of the Director.

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Why was the nurse who has Ebola allowed to travel? At the time she boarded the plane on October 13, the hospital worker was monitoring herself for fever and other symptoms of Ebola, but did not fall into any of the risk categories that required restriction of movement based on CDC’s movement and monitoring guidelines. Therefore, there was no known reason at that time for her to be restricted from boarding the airplane.

What are you doing to monitor the Frontier passengers on the two flights? CDC believes that there is minimal risk to passengers on the same plane as the nurse, based on previous experience involving sick passengers with Ebola or another similar virus, what we know about how the virus is spread, and the health status of the nurse. However, out of an abundance of caution, CDC is working together with state health departments and Frontier Airlines to contact all passengers and crew traveling on Frontier Airline flight 1142 from Oct. 10 and flight 1143 from Oct. 13. As of Oct. 17, all of the travelers on flight 1143 arriving in Dallas on Oct. 13 and most of the travelers on flight 1142 in Cleveland on Oct. 10 have been contacted.
Subjects:

Air Travel Disease Transmission, Infectious Ebolavirus Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Transmission
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Ebola Ebola Virus Ebola Virus Disease Orthoebolavirus
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
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Text
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Pamphlet (or booklet)
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Ohio ; Texas
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Diseases & Conditions ; Global Health
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3 pdf pages
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Infectious Diseases
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