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A Frontier Airlines plane taxis the runway at Cleveland Hopkins Airport on Wednesday in Cleveland, Ohio. Recently diagnosed Ebola patient, tampa airport hotel health care worker Amber Vinson, traveled on Frontier Airlines from Dallas to Cleveland with a low fever on October 10, and returned to Dallas on October 13.
Airline employees and passengers already on edge about possible Ebola exposure are feeling fresh anxiety after an infected Texas nurse flew in the U.S. with a slight fever hours before she reported being ill.
As U.S. officials sought out Frontier Airlines passengers who were on the caregiver s plane this week, the case sowed new doubts tampa airport hotel about the risks in crowded aircraft cabins. A Southwest Airlines flight-attendant union plans to meet Thursday with management to discuss the threat from the disease as other U.S. carriers also try to minimize risks for workers.
I m jittery, forget about my clients! said Pallavi Shah, founder of Our Personal Guest, a luxury travel agency based in New York. There is no question, people are definitely more concerned, especially the economy class.
tampa airport hotel The health-care worker s trip showed the latest challenge for authorities working to contain the Ebola virus: While the U.S. adds screening for arriving travelers from the West African nations ravaged by the disease, the nurse s Oct. 13 journey was entirely inside the U.S., to Dallas from Cleveland.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the nurse helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola in Dallas this month. She alerted officials at she was sick on Oct. 14, becoming the second Texas Health Presbyterian tampa airport hotel Hospital tampa airport hotel caregiver in Duncan s case to be infected.
We re all concerned, said Neil Roghair, an American pilot and union vice president. We re watching the situation carefully. Do we have people refusing to take flights? No. Or refusing to come to work? No. We re not at that point. It s clearly something tampa airport hotel everybody is monitoring.
U.S. officials said Wednesday they are contacting at least 132 people who re on Frontier Flight 1143, the one taken by the infected woman, along with people she visited over her three days in Cleveland. She had an elevated temperature of 99.5 degrees (37.5 degrees Celsius) on the trip to Dallas, CDC Director Thomas Frieden said.
While Frieden said she shouldn t have traveled on a commercial airline, an agency spokeswoman, Barbara Reynolds, said the nurse did alert CDC officials about her condition and wasn t told to stay off the flight.
Even with a low chance of Ebola infection tampa airport hotel via sweat or saliva, passengers and flight attendants who may have had contact with the nurse could be at risk, said Robert Garry, a Tulane University virologist.
The people that were on that plane, especially the ones who were in her row or whatever they just need to be followed, tampa airport hotel Garry said. You would have to have some sort of more than just that casual contact. You would have to have shaken her hand or put your hand on her shoulder or face.
Frontier has parked the jet used for Flight 1143 for a fourth cabin cleaning, according to a letter to employees. In an abundance of caution, the airline tampa airport hotel said it will remove seat covers and carpet in the area where the nurse sat, and change the cabin air filters. The flight s two pilots and four flight attendants were put on 21-day leave with pay.
Across the industry, attendants have been placing more calls to a union hotline tampa airport hotel to voice concerns about safety risks, said Corey Caldwell, spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants, tampa airport hotel which represents workers at carriers including Frontier and United Airlines.
Mike Boyd, an airline consultant based in Evergreen, Colorado, said U.S. carriers tampa airport hotel and the airline industry won t be affected by the case of a Dallas health-care giver flying the night before she reported having a temperature and being diagnosed with Ebola.
The Global Business Travel Association, an Alexandria, tampa airport hotel Virginia-based advocacy group, is watching to see how Ebola affects international corporate travel. An Oct. 13-15 survey of 421 corporate tampa airport hotel travel managers found 18 percent reported some to a great deal of impact so far, Executive Director Michael McCormick said.
Even developed countries like the U.S. seem to be struggling to get the upper hand over the disease, and that s the scary part, Shah said in a phone interview. I don t know if it s psychosomatic or what but you sure as hell feel vulnerable, and I think airlines tampa airport hotel have to do something to reassure people.