An Ohio bridal shop has closed after Amber Vinson, the second Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola, visited the venue in search of bridesmaid dresses last weekend.
Coming Attractions Bridal and Formal, the bridal shop Vinson and her friends visited in Akron, voluntarily closed as a precaution after speaking with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, WKYC reported.
What was supposed to be a weekend spent planning her wedding turned into a cross-state Ebola scare when Vinson traveled from Ohio back to Dallas on Monday and was diagnosed with Ebola on Tuesday.
Though Vinson did not show severe symptoms of the virus at the time, such as vomiting and diarrhea, Vinson did have a slight fever before she left Ohio, which potentially jeopardized those she came in contact with before leaving.
Summit County Public Health is asking anyone who visited the shop on Saturday between noon and 3:30 p.m. to call it at (330) 926-3939, according to WKYC.
Anna Younker, the shop's owner, told CNN that the bride-to-be was very nice.
"Very intelligent lady. We had great conversation. Nice bridal party. All her friends were nice," Younker said.
Younker also said Vinson did not appear sick when she visited her shop. But the owner did question what was going through Vinson's mind when she decided to board the Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland with 131 other people onboard.
"How did you not think this through? You know, if you're supposed to be quarantined, you're at a hospital where the Ebola is alive, what made you think it's OK to get on a plane?" Younker told CNN.
Vinson called the CDC before she boarded the flight Monday to say she had a fever of 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit but officials did not prevent her from flying.
A federal official told Reuters the CDC did not stop her from flying because her temperature was below the threshold of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
Vinson is one of two Dallas nurses who have so far tested positive for the Ebola virus after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the nation's first Ebola case, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Duncan died from the disease last week.
While the U.S. has seen one death from Ebola, of which there is no known cure, more than 4,500 have died in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the center of the worst Ebola epidemic in history.
