Ebola fears in America reached a whole new level on
Wednesday, when a passenger at Washington, DC's Dulles Airport was seen wearing
a partial-Hazmat suit while waiting for a flight.
The unidentified woman was seen sitting in an airport
lounge, wearing a transparent blue plastic suit, on the same say a second nurse
was diagnosed with the deadly disease in Dallas, Texas. The suit did not fully
cover her arms, leaving her wrists exposed.
According to the Daily Caller which published the picture on
Wednesday, the photographer who supplied their reporter the picture did not
approach the woman to ask why she had gone to such extreme lengths.
America's 'patient zero' Thomas Eric Duncan flew into Texas
last month from Liberia, with a layover at Dulles, but health officials say he
was not showing symptoms of the virus at that point and therefore unable to
spread the disease.
However, Amber Vinson,
the second nurse to contract the disease after treating Duncan, flew on
a commercial flight with a low-grade fever on Monday, the day before she
admitted herself to the hospital with further symptoms of the virus.
The CDC confirmed today that they let her board the flight,
since her temperature was below the threshold of 100.4F. But the health
organization's Director Thomas Frieden initially said she should not have been
on a commercial flight, after having treated Duncan in the first 'high-risk'
days of his stay at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital.
Miss Vinson, 29, was flown out of Dallas on a chartered jet
Wednesday evening to Atlanta, Georgia, where she is being treated at Emory
University Hospital.
The CDC has tried to calm fliers by saying Ebola is not
spread through casual contact, and can only be contracted by an exchange of
bodily fluids.
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