Dallas nurse told CDC she had a slight fever before boarding flight: source

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Dallas nurse told CDC she had a slight fever before boarding flight: source

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dallas-nurse-told-cdc-she-had-slight-fever-003537048--finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/M4RtlvYah3hJk3uMCll5dA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-10-16T003537Z_1_LYNXNPEA9F00H_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-EBOLA-USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="An ambulance driver wearing a protective suit drives Amber Joy Vinson, the second health worker to be infected with the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to the airport in Dallas" align="left" title="An ambulance driver wearing a protective suit drives Amber Joy Vinson, the second health worker to be infected with the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to the airport in Dallas" border="0" /></a>(Reuters) - The second Dallas nurse to become infected with Ebola told the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that she had a slight fever before she boarded a Frontier Airlines flight from Ohio to Dallas and was not told to stay put, a federal source said on Wednesday. The U.S. nurse, who had treated the Dallas index patient Thomas Eric Duncan, informed the CDC that she had a temperature of 99.5 Fahrenheit (37.5 Celsius) before boarding the flight on Oct. 13. Since that was below the CDC's temperature threshold of 100.4F, &quot;she was not told not to fly,&quot; the source said. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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