Second Dallas Nurse With Ebola Transported To Atlanta For Treatment

The second health care worker infected with Ebola in Dallas, Texas has been moved to an isolation unit in Atlanta, Georgia.

The second worker to be infected with the disease by Thomas Eric Duncan is reported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to be "ill but clinically stable." She will reportedly be transferred to the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia later on Wednesday for treatment.

The 29-year-old nurse's name has been released as Amber Vinson. Another nurse, Nina Pham, was also infected with Ebola while treating Duncan, a Liberian national, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital before Duncan passed away last week.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is reportedly reaching out to airline passengers after it was discovered the 29-year-old nurse took a commercial flight from Cleveland, Ohio to Dallas, Texas on Monday, one day before she started experiencing symptoms of Ebola. The virus can only be spread when symptoms are present, but due to the short time frame between the flight and the symptoms, the CDC is reportedly reaching out to passengers.

Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, said in a statement that because two health workers from the hospital have already been infected, others testing positive for the disease is a "very real possibility."

Frieden added that Vinson should not have been taking commercial transportation after Pham was diagnosed with Ebola.

"Because at that point she was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to Ebola, she should not have traveled on a commercial airline," Frieden said. "From this moment forward, we will ensure that no individual monitored for exposure undergoes travel in any way other than controlled movement," Frieden added, referencing a controlled movement as being a car or some other personal transportation. 

The second health care worker is being transferred to the same Atlanta hospital where health missionaries who had contracted the disease were successfully treated back in August. She is being transferred because there are only three isolation units at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.