Ebola: Fort Lauderdale One Of The Victim’s Plane Stopover

Amber Joy Vinson, 29, Texas nurse infected with Ebola, was able to travel from Cleveland to Dallas on Fronteir Airlines Flight 1143 on Monday, that is a day before she began showing symptoms for Ebola, according to the Centers for Disease Control. She was one of the nurses who took care of Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who died from Ebola last week.

Vinson is now admitted at the Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, where she will be the fourth patient to be treated there for the virus.

Frontier said Monday’s flight to Dallas-Fort Worth landed at 8:16 p.m. and was parked overnight at the airport. The plane was cleaned according to CDC standards and returned to service on Oct. 14. It was cleaned again in Cleveland at the end of the day on Oct. 14.

The plane was used for five additional flights, including a stop in Fort Lauderdale, before being taken out of service.