A 29-year-old nurse named Amber Joy Vinson was identified Wednesday as the second Dallas hospital worker infected with Ebola while treating a patient from Liberia who later died of the deadly virus, according to a report.
“Right now she’s doing OK. Her temperature is going down. We don’t want to do a lot of talking about it now,” Vinson’s stepfather told .
“She’s OK. The main concern is for her to get better.”
Vinson flew to Cleveland on Friday and returned to Dallas on Monday, one day before she came down with a fever and went to the hospital.
Authorities are trying to reach everyone who flew with her on Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 to assess their risk of exposure to Ebola.