Dallas County Commissioners are now considering declaring the spread of Ebola a disaster on Thursday following reports of a third confirmed Ebola patient in the city who even travelled by air earlier this week.

Dallas officials are set to convene on Thursday to determine whether to put the city under a state of disaster which will allow authorities to impose additional travel restrictions for the medical personnel from the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient on American soil.

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This comes after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Wednesday that Amber Joy Vinson indeed travelled from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday aboard Frontier Airlines Flight 1143.

According to reports, the 29-year-old Dallas nurse had returned from the trip to Ohio with a low fever and was immediately taken to a medical facility before being transferred to the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where Ebola patients have successfully recovered.

At the special meeting of Dallas officials, Dr. Christopher Perkins, Dallas County Medical Director, will sign an order to follow directives from the CDC regarding a travel ban for those being monitored for Ebola symptoms.

This includes travelling by air as well as the use of public transport such as buses.

Following reports of her flight to Ohio, all 132 of Vinson's co-passengers in flight 1143 are being contacted by the CDC on Wednesday evening for close monitoring.

Meanwhile, the Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas has offered a room for voluntary isolation of its employees who wish to "avoid even the remote possibility of any potential exposure to family, friends and the broader public."

Reports indicate that about 77 Presbyterian Hospital employees may have had contact with Duncan.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins revealed that health authorities from the hospital and the CDC did not instruct any of the health workers to refrain from being in public during the 21-day symptom monitoring period after they helped treat Thomas Duncan.

"No one told them, which is something that is profoundly disappointing to me, but this is something that we've got to fix quickly," he stated.

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