Texas nurse Amber Vinson (L) steps from an ambulance at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia October 15, 2014. Vinson, the second Texas nurse who had contracted Ebola was flown to Emory Wednesday after being transferred from Texas Presbyterian Ho
Texas nurse Amber Vinson (L) steps from an ambulance at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia October 15, 2014. Vinson, the second Texas nurse who had contracted Ebola was flown to Emory Wednesday after being transferred from Texas Presbyterian Hospital. She had treated Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola and was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States. REUTERS/Jerry Jordan REUTERS/Jerry Jordan

The family of Amber Joy Vinson has refuted the claims of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention that described the health worker as careless on how she dealt her health situation. Vinson is the second person and a nurse with the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus after attending to the now dead Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, Her family has likewise hired a lawyer to help clear things up.

In the meantine, the CDC has revised federal guidelines on how to deal with future Ebola cases. Health workers in the U.S. are now instructed to wear protective gear "with no skin showing."

The CDC had described Vinson as having wilfully disregarded and violated protocols when she boarded a public commercial airline while self-monitoring her Ebola symptoms. It said they did not approve her flight to Ohio, but did allow her return flight. All throughout the chaos, Vinson had been routinely reported her temperature to CDC epidemiology teams.

A government official told NBC News "Vinson was not told that she could not fly" because her temperature at that time did not yet reach the threshold of 100.4. Her temperature on Monday before flying was only 99.5 degrees.

Vinson was "in no way careless prior to or after her exposure to Mr Thomas Eric Duncan," Vinson's family said in a statement detailing her interactions with health officials. Duncan is the Liberian Ebola patient treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where Vinson was part of the attending team.

Vinson's family maintained the nurse "was fully cleared for travel" and that officials had assured Amber that her concerns "were unfounded because her temperatures were within the appropriate measures and [she was] asymptomatic in all other areas."

"Suggestions that she ignored any of the physicians and government-provided protocols recommended to her are patently untrue and hurtful," Vinson's family further said.

In the same statement, Vinson's family said they have hired high-profile Washington attorney Billy Martin to help clear her name and her actions. Martin has handled cases for Michael Vick, Wesley Snipes, Chandra Levy's family and Monica Lewinsky's mother. He likewise represented former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell in 2006, who was charged with 11 counts of bribery, racketeering and fraud. Campbell was consequently convicted of three counts of tax evasion and sentenced to 30 months in prison. He was released in 2008.

Vinson was the one who drew Duncan's blood from September 30 to October 2 and again from October 5 to 8, as well as inserted catheters and handled his bodily fluids. All the while she was wearing protective gear. Duncan died October 8.

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