Mike McCaul: Target 'Individuals' Who Are Carrying Ebola

There is talk about banning flights out of Ebola-plagued West Africa, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said Sunday,  but he believes "we need to target more the individuals themselves."

In addition, the Texas Republican told CBS "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer, the United states needs "to look at the idea of potentially, temporarily suspending the 13,000 Visas coming of this region" while allowing healthcare workers to still go in and contain the threat.

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A health care worker in Dallas who cared for Liberan Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week, has tested positive for the virus as well. The latest victim — the first person to catch Ebola from another ill person in the United States — contracted the disease after a breach of care protocol, said the director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas Frieden, earlier on Sunday's show.

"I think the fact that we don't know of a breach in protocol is concerning because clearly there was a breach in protocol. We have the ability to prevent the spread of Ebola by caring safely for patients," Frieden told CBS.

McCaul said Sunday there has been confirmation that the latest U.S. Ebola victim is a nurse, but he does not know that person's gender.

"This really raises the issue of protocols and proper protocols and procedures," said McCaul. "Remember Mr. Duncan, when he was first admitted, said he came from Liberia and had a 103-degree temperature and then was released on to the streets, which also causes a threat to other people out in the community."

The nurse was exposed, McCaul said he has heard, while he or she was wearing protective gear, "and there must have been some breach of that protocol."

McCaul does think that screenings that have started at five airports to scan people for potential Ebola symptoms could stop some Ebola carriers from coming into the country, but warned that "this is a virus that incubates for 21 days, so it still leaves the possibility somebody could still get through that process."

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