Plane Carrying Ebola-Infected Nurse Made Stop in Fort Lauderdale

A Frontier Airlines plane carrying a nurse who was infected with Ebola made a stop in Fort Lauderdale 24 hours after leaving Dallas.

The Fort Lauderdale stop was one of four others the plane made after leaving Dallas, according to a flight-monitoring website, flightaware.com.

Frontier Airlines said it immediately grounded the plane after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified it of the Ebola-infected passenger. CDCDirector Dr. Tom Frieden said the woman should never have boarded the flight, but nobody at the agency stopped her despite her reporting a temperature of 99.5 Farenheit.

The woman flew from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth Monday. The next day, the plane flew back to Cleveland and then to Fort Lauderdale. The plane was then flown back to Cleveland, then to Atlanta, then back to Cleveland before it was grounded.

The CDC has already contacted all passengers who flew on the same flight as the Ebola patient.