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| Tallmadge Home Where Ebola Patient Amber Vinson Stayed |
Vinson's stepfather, whose name was not released, self-quarantined himself after Vinson tested positive for the Ebola virus Tuesday.
The grey wood-shingled home on Stonegate Trail will be guarded by police as long as media are there, Tallmadge Police Spokesman Ron Williams said.
"We want to stress that no one here is ill," Williams said. "This is being done as a precautionary measure."
National media were at the scene, including reporters from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Vinson, 29, flew to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Oct. 10 and flew home to Dallas on Oct. 13, the day before she was diagnosed. Williams said she spend three days at the home in Tallmadge.
Williams did not know whether any other relatives while she was in Northeast Ohio.
Summit County Public Health officials are still trying to determine who Vinson may have seen and where she went while she was visiting family. Interviews to determine Vinson's whereabouts are expected to take time, said Summit County Public Health Medical Director Margo Erme, and people will be interviewed twice to determine whether or not they were in contact with Vinson.
Vinson, a Firestone High School graduate, earned her nursing degree at Kent State University and worked at Summa Akron City Hospital from 2007-12, said spokesman Jim Gosky. She was in town to help her mother plan for a wedding.
Williams said that she was not ill while she was at the house in Tallmadge.