Ebola: Cleveland Hopkins airport reacts to ebola situation

Frontier Airlines plane #N220FR is backed away from Gate A9 Cleveland Hopkins Airport at about 6:25 p.m. in Cleveland, Ohio on Oct. 15, 2014.

(Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Top health officials with Cleveland and Cuyahoga County have scheduled a news conference this afternoon to update the public on their response to possible exposure to the Ebola virus here.

Toinette Parrilla, director of the Cleveland Department of Public Health, and Terry Allan, commissioner of the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, will address the media at 3 p.m. at 205 West St. Clair Ave. in Cleveland, Maureen Harper, spokeswoman for Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, wrote in a post on the official City Hall blog.

Northeast Ohio Media Group reporter Andrew J. Tobias will attend the press conference and post live updates in the comments section below.

Authorities have been on alert since word broke early Wednesday that a Texas nurse who had been exposed to the Ebola virus flew through Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport before visiting family in Akron last week.

Health officials said Wednesday afternoon they were working to identify people Amber Joy Vinson may have come into close contact with while she was here.