Vinson Credit: WKSU TWITTER
Kent State University announced today that three employees related to Ebola patient Amber Vinson, who had been staying with family in Summit County last week, will remain at home and self-monitor for symptoms, per CDC protocol. The measure comes with “an abundance of caution,” according to Dr. Angela DeJulius, director of University Health Services at the university.

“It’s important to note that the patient was not on the Kent State campus,” said Kent State President Beverly Warren. “She stayed with her family at their home in Summit County and did not step foot on our campus. We want to assure our university community that we are taking this information seriously, taking steps to communicate what we know.”

Vinson was not showing symptoms of Ebola while in Northeast Ohio. She was diagnosed in Dallas this morning after detecting a low-grade fever yesterday. Vinson flew home through Cleveland Hopkins Airport on Monday, Oct. 13.

Vinson works as a nurse in Dallas; she helped care for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola on Oct. 8.

The university will hold a press conference at 4 p.m. to elaborate further.

This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2014.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

8 replies on “Three Kent State University Employees — Each Related to Ebola Patient — Will Remain at Home for 21 Days and Self-Monitor”

  1. At home?? At home?? Cmon go to an isolation room at a hospital!!! No wonder the sh*ts spreading!!!!!

  2. anyone that has had close contact with an ebola patient should absolutely be quarantined and, ideally, in one place. maybe some place, i don’t know, like the fuggin CDC.

  3. Vinson left Cleveland by air with a fever. She had to know she was sick and contagious. You can at trust people to “self contain” for 21days.

  4. I am a grad student at KSU and I want to know who the employees are and what building they work in. Geez Kent help me sleep at night.

  5. She should have been put on the do not fly list! Shame on her for traveling so soon after the patient she cared for died AND one of her co workers came down with Ebola. Has she no common sense? No excuse.

  8. The government needs to take real steps! Everyone that has come in contact with ebola or cares for evola patients needs to be isolated until there is 21 days no symptoms or contact!

    Sorry health car professionals, but if your treating an ebola patient, it is too dangerous to be in public no matter what precautions you think your taking. Need to have volunteers without family responsibilities….

    With strick measures this will end, without them, this ia just the beginning!

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