CHICAGO — Unable to shake its reputation as “the Ebola store,” an Ohio bridal shop visited by a woman who later tested positive for the virus will close this year, the store’s manager said Thursday.

Business has been slow at Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal in Akron since Amber Joy Vinson, a nurse from Dallas, shopped there in October, days before she was told she had Ebola, said Kayla Litz, the store’s manager. Rather than invest more money and hope that customers would overcome their fears, Ms. Litz said the longtime owner had decided to sell the remaining gowns and tuxedos.

“We get calls, ‘Is it safe to come in there?’” Ms. Litz said. Some customers refuse to venture past the doorway, she said, and others have demanded refunds because they fear their gowns could be contaminated.

Although no one in Ohio has ever contracted Ebola, public health officials monitored customers who were in the store at the same time as Ms. Vinson. For days, local and national news media published photographs of the shop, which is on the side of a busy commercial strip.