Health Care Worker Flew on Airline Days Before Testing Positive for Ebola [VIDEO]

(Update 10/16/14) The CDC is considering adding health care workers who treated the Ebola patient zero to the FAA no-fly list after the latest nurse test positive days after taking a flight from Dallas to Cleveland. This decision is being discussed after the latest nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, was cleared by the CDC to fly on a commercial air liner earlier this week despite being exposed to the Ebola virus and reporting a 99.5 degree temperature. When she called the CDC to see if would be ok to fly, they allowed it since Vision was below the 100.4 degree threshold the agency had set.

(Updated 10/15/14) On Wednesday, October 15, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced that a second Dallas hospital employee is now being treated for the Ebola virus.

The year to be identified joins the previously invected nurse Nina Pham in isolation.

(Updated 10/14/14)The Dallas nurse who was infected with the Ebola virus in what is being called a "breach of protocol" while treating patient zero has now been identified. According to WFAA News in Dallas, The woman has now been identified as Nina Pham, 26, a nurse and former Texas Christian University student. Pham stated that she wore protective gear while treating Duncan who recently died from the Ebola virus. She has been unable to pinpoint how the breach might have occurred. However this may lead to other health care workers who were treating the Liberian patient being infected with the deadly virus. On Sunday (October 12) the CDC confirmed the woman's positive test and that it was the first known case of the Ebola virus being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.

A person who is considered a "close contact' of Pham has been placed in isolation as a precaution and officials are now evaluating and monitoring all workers who cam in contact or could have been exposed to Duncan while he was being treated at the hospital.