Ebola Fears Grip US: Two Schools Shut, Nurses on Paid Leave Ebola fears prompted school closures and nursing staff to stay home Thursday in Cleveland as the Ohio city grappled with mounting public concern after it emerged that the second Dallas nurse infected by the virus had spent time there. Amber Vinson, 29, who treated Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan, flew to Ohio on Oct. 8 and then back to Texas on Monday. She tested positive for Ebola Tuesday, putting officials in a spin over who might have had contact with the nurse. Cleveland Clinic, The MetroHealth System, and University Hospitals said employees – “mostly nurses” – who were aboard Vinson’s flight from Dallas to Ohio were placed on paid leave and were being monitored. “We are confident that these nurses are at low risk of exposure since we understand [Vinson] did not have symptoms at the time. We have taken this measure as an extra precautionary step for our employees, patients, and visitors,” the hospitals said in a statement. A teacher who may have come into contact with Vinson was ordered to stay home and her elementary school, Cranwood, was “thoroughly cleaned with a bleach-based cleaning solution according to guidelines provided by the Center for Disease Control,” Cleveland Metropolitan School District said. Meanwhile, Solon Middle School and Parkside Elementary School in Solon, Ohio – a few miles southeast of Cleveland - were ordered closed Thursday after a middle school worker “traveled home from Dallas on Frontier Airlines Tuesday on a different flight, but perhaps the same aircraft” as Vinson, officials said. Meanwhile, Clevelands UH Case Medical Center said “a few” people concerned about exposure to the deadly virus on the Frontier Airlines flight had turned up in their Emergency Room on Wednesday, but none turned out to have been on the same flights as Vinson.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:58:33 +0000
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