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Amber Vinson

DALLAS, Texas — The head of the Centers for Disease Control now says a nurse who treated a now dead Ebola patient should never have flown on a commercial flight after treating him.

The travel was a violation of CDC protocol, but it is not clear whether she knew of that restriction.

Amber Vinson flew on a Frontier Airlines plane the day before going to the hospital.

The CDC reports the Vinson’s temperature was 99 degrees while she was traveling.

The CDC is asking all 132 people who flew Frontier Airlines flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas October 13 to call the CDC at 1-800-232-4636.

Vinson flew Monday night and went to a Dallas hospital with a fever and was isolated Tuesday.

The CDC reports airline employees did not notice any symptoms from the woman.

The CDC now says those who work with Ebola patients will have their travel restricted for a certain amount of time.

Regarding the plane on which the nurse traveled, Frontier Airlines said, “The aircraft received a thorough cleaning per our normal procedures which is consistent with CDC guidelines prior to returning to service the next day. It was also cleaned again in Cleveland last night.”

“The aircraft received a thorough cleaning per our normal procedures which is consistent with CDC guidelines prior to returning to service the next day. It was also cleaned again in Cleveland last night.”

The CDC however has said there is no need to stop flights from countries affected by Ebola.

A poll found 67 percent of Americans favor flight restrictions from Ebola infected countries.

A preliminary Ebola test was done late Tuesday at the state public health laboratory in Austin, and the results came back around midnight. A second test will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

The infected woman will be transferred to a hospital in Atlanta near the CDC headquarters.

Frontier Airlines will begin flying to Memphis from Dallas later this month.

The CDC has a section on its website on contracting Ebola.

President Obama has cancelled a fundraising trip to meet with his cabinet about response to Ebola.

The CDC has said proper protocols were not followed a the hospital treating Thomas Eric Duncan.

“I don’t think we have a systematic institutional problem,” Dr. Daniel Varga, chief clinical officer of Texas Health Resources, told reporters Wednesday, facing questions about the hospital’s actions.

Medical staff “may have done some things differently with the benefit of what we know today,” he said, adding, “no one wants to get this right more than our hospital.”

People in the health care worker’s office building were informed when officials went door to door, and also through early morning reverse 911 calls, officials said.

Seventy-five health care workers in Dallas are being monitored for any Ebola symptoms, Varga said.

CNN reports an official close to the situation says that in hindsight, Duncan should have been transferred immediately to either Emory University Hospital in Atlanta or Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Those hospitals are among only four in the country that have biocontainment units and have been preparing for years to treat a highly infectious disease like Ebola.

“If we knew then what we know now about this hospital’s ability to safely care for these patients, then we would have transferred him to Emory or Nebraska,” the official told CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.

“I think there are hospitals that are more than ready, but I think there are some that are not.”