(Bloomberg) — United Continental Holdings Inc. is alerting passengers who were on two trips with a U.S.-bound Ebola patient last month and offered blood tests to flight attendants on those planes.
The notifications are intended to keep customers fully informed even though the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sees "zero risk" of transmission, said Christen David, a spokeswoman. The infected traveler wasn't contagious at the time, Chicago-based United has said.
The airline took the passenger, Thomas Eric Duncan, on the last two legs of a three-stage journey to Texas from Liberia. Duncan's Ebola diagnosis made him the first person with the disease in the U.S., spurring public-health efforts to contain the illness and triggering demands yesterday from federal lawmakers for more aggressive action.
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