Health officials are trying to trace 132 air passengers who flew on a plane with a nurse on the day before she came down with symptoms of Ebola.
The nurse, who treated Ebola victim Eric Thomas Duncan in Dallas before he died, flew on Frontier Airlines from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday night and came down with a fever on Tuesday. She has since been isolated.
The airline said that the healthcare worker didn’t exhibit any symptoms during the flight, however she was criticised by the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas Frieden.
During a press conference today he said: "She should not have flown on a commercial airline."
The health-care worker was part of a team that had cared for Duncan, a Liberian man who flew to Texas and was diagnosed with Ebola last month.
Duncan died last week. Nina Pham, a nurse who also cared for Duncan, was diagnosed with Ebola on Sunday.
