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Amber Vinson, 29, a nurse at the Dallas hospital where an Ebola patient had died, was identified today as the second health care worker at the hospital to contract the deadly virus. She told the CDC her temperature was 99.5 degrees, which is below the 100.4 reading for a fever. "She flew into Cleveland to prepare for her wedding. She came in to visit her mother and her mother’s fiance," said Toinette Parrilla, director of Cleveland Department of Public Health. Vinson stayed at her relatives' home while visiting Ohio and those relatives are employees of Kent State University, the school said in a statement. "She did not step foot on our campus," Kent State President Beverly Warren said. The relatives were sent home from the school and asked to monitor themselves for the next 21 days, school officials said. Vinson went on her trip after being one of the nurses who was very involved with the care for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola at the Dallas hospital. She drew his blood, inserted catheters, and dealt with his bodily fluids, according to Duncan's medical records obtained by the Associated Press. Vinson arrived in Cleveland on Friday Oct. 10 and returned to Dallas on the evening of Monday Oct. 13. She was diagnosed with a fever, which is considered to be the first symptom of the disease, on Tuesday Oct. 14. She was tested and her diagnosis was confirmed late Tuesday.