By Sky News US Team
US health officials are attempting to track down passengers who shared a flight with the second nurse diagnosed with ebola.
Amber Vinson, 29, was on board Frontier Airlines flight 1143 from Cleveland, Ohio, to Dallas-Fort Worth on 13 October, a day before she fell ill.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it was working to make contact with all 132 passengers on board the flight.
The plane's crew said Miss Vinson did not exhibit any symptoms of ebola during the flight on Monday.
She was put in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas within 90 minutes of developing a fever on Tuesday.
Infected ebola patients are not considered contagious until they have symptoms, according to health officials.
US Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell said on Wednesday that Miss Vinson will be transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where two Americans who contracted ebola while working in West Africa were successfully treated and released.
Miss Vinson is the second health worker to contract ebola in the US after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who succumbed to the virus on 8 October.
Nina Pham, a 26-year-old nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian, remains in isolation at the hospital, and is said to be in stable condition after receiving a plasma transfusion donated by ebola survivor Dr Kent Brantly.
The nurses' cases have raised concerns over the care procedures and the effectiveness of the protective gear used by medical staff at the Dallas hospital.
A nursing union has claimed that health workers treating Mr Duncan had to use medical tape to secure openings in their protective outfits.
Dr Tom Frieden, the director of the CDC, initially said a "breach of protocol" was to blame for Miss Pham's diagnosis, but health officials have not specifically said what led to either her or Miss Vinson contracting the virus.
The situation prompted President Barack Obama to postpone planned political stops in New Jersey and Connecticut on Wednesday.
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A team of Dallas firefighters tape off the door of the home of the latest Texas health worker to be diagnosed with ebola. Pic: Sana Syed/Twitter
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A hazmat team decontaminates areas around the health worker's home. Pic: Sana Syed/Twitter
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Decontamination talks outside the health worker's home. Pic: Sana Syed/Twitter
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Dallas police officers and firefighters gather to distribute information leaflets in the area around the home of a sick hospital employee. Pic: Dallas Police/Twitter
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Instead, the White House said the president will convene a high-level meeting about the ebola outbreak.
On Tuesday, Mr Obama reiterated that an ebola epidemic in the US was "highly unlikely", but added that even one case "is too many, and we've got to keep on doing everything we can".
Nearly 4,500 deaths, mostly in West Africa, have been reported during what health officials have called the worst ebola outbreak in history.
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