Newark Passenger Monitored for Ebola After United Flight

Centers for Disease Control officials say they are monitoring a female health care worker who vomited on a United Airlines flight Monday and was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center.

The passenger, who was not identified, arrived at about 2:03 p.m. on United Flight 45 from Brussels, which had 245 passengers and 14 crew members, officials said. United, in a statement, did not specify whether the woman actually was thought to have the virus, according to NJ.com.

Newark Liberty is one of five U.S. airports designated as a point of entry for passengers arriving from Sierra Leone, Liberia or Guinea, the three West African nations that formed the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak last year, according to NJ.com.

An American nurse named Kaci Hickox made headlines late last year after she was quarantined at University Hospital before being sent home to Maine.

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