DFW Airport Workers Not Given Special Instructions Despite Ebola Scare
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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Despite the latest case of an Ebola infected person traveling out of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, there are few visible changes in how workers are treating passengers there.
Other than wearing latex gloves, no one – from valets to janitors – were given special instructions.
"I don't have a lot of fear about it but, you know, it is a concern because it seems like it could be airborne," said passenger Karen Brothers from Denver. "You know, people are getting sick without suits on… with suits on..."
The nurse, identified as Amber Joy Vinson, wasn't experiencing symptoms of the virus when she flew Frontier Airlines from Ohio back to DFW Airport on Monday night, according to the Center for Disease Control. By Tuesday morning though, she had a fever.
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Health officials are interviewing all the other passengers who were on Vinson's flight.
"We think there is an extremely low likelihood that anyone traveling on this plane would have been exposed," said CDC Director Tom Frieden.
He also said Vinson shouldn't have taken a commercial flight because she was among the hospital workers being monitored after potential exposure to the Liberian patient.
Frontier Airline's flights continued to arrive and takeoff at the airport Wednesday without issue. The plane Vinson was a passenger on had a routine cleaning at the airport Monday night before it was put back into service Tuesday.
"It's such a confined space I'm sure things can spread, but I have faith that people take the precautions they need to keep everybody out of danger," said passenger Taylor Wright from Denver.
DFW airport said it is following CDC and Tarrant County Health Department guidelines.
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