The latest U.S. patient to test positive for Ebola reportedly flew on Frontier airlines on Monday from Cleveland to Dallas.

The CDC and Frontier say the woman, who has been identified as 26-year-old Amber Joy Vinson, did not show any symptoms until Tuesday, Oct. 14, the day after her flight with 132 other passengers. 

The CDC is asking all passengers on Frontier flight 1143 to call 1-800-CDC-INFO to determine if they are at risk of contracting the virus.

Frontier says the plane “received a thorough cleaning per our normal procedures” before it was returned to service on Oct. 14, but that was before Frontier received notice of Vinson’s condition.

WOIO reporter Paul Orlousky tweeted this morning that the plane in question is on a remote runway at Cleveland Hopkins being re-cleaned. 

The woman also flew from Dallas to Cleveland on Oct. 10.

The WHO says Ebola’s incubation period is two to 21 days.

More to come as the story develops.

This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2014.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

4 replies on “Woman with Ebola Flew on Frontier Airlines from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday”

  1. Why do healthcare workers that are aware of the severity of this disease not take the precautions seriously? I thought everyone that had contact with Duncan were asked to isolate and monitor their temperatures. Why would someone having been told that take a flight to and from another state, knowing that she’d had close contact (maybe not direct, but certainly close enough to place her on a short list) with the decedent? it makes not sense to me!!!

  2. As a wonderful and caring health care provider for a very high profile and sad case, why isn’t she (and others like her caring for this and others here in the U.S.) at least under a 21-day monitoring before going out anywhere – especially flying or using any public transportation, visiting relatives and so on. We now have over 3000 troops in the affected countries of West Africa, they MUST be quarantined when they return – each and every one of them! Maybe a good re-purpose for Guantanamo to serve as a quarantine site. And SHAME on the hospital in Texas for their ill preparedness. The CDC is scamming us!

  3. the US should have followed other euro countries by banning flights from the west african hot zone. and anyone in contact with an infected person should be quarantined also. just crazy that this nurse would travel anywhere after contacting someone with it. the dallas hospital staff has to be completely brain dead to not pay attention to this. and the feds seem to be doing little to nothing to prevent an epidemic. pretty much by design.

  4. This is the new form of population control. Plain and simple. Why else would our government not restrict flights coming from Western Africa, or quarantine every single person that comes in contact with the virus for at least 21 days?

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