Woman falls ill at DART station, prompts emergency response

DALLAS, TX (KTRK) -- Fears of another potential Ebola infection shut down a Dallas transit station Saturday afternoon.

DART spokesperson Morgan Lyons says a woman getting off a northbound train at the White Rock Station got sick. Initial reports were that she vomited, but Lyons says she spit.

Initial reports were that she was on an Ebola monitoring list and lived in the same apartment complex where Thomas Eric Duncan stayed before he was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where he later died. DART says the woman stayed at the complex for several days at some point in the last few weeks, and she was never on an observation list.

This incident sparked a response that included men in HazMat suits cleaning the area where she spit.

Out of an abundance of caution, DART closed the station down and took the railcar she was on out of commission to inspect it.

One man we spoke with on the scene says this was an overreaction: "Somebody pukes, and everybody freaks out," he said.

The woman was taken to the hospital for observation.

The White Rock Station re-opened around 5pm Saturday evening.