U.S. Nurse with Ebola to be Moved from TX
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First Dallas nurse to contract Ebola headed for D.C. suburbOfficials announced Thursday that first Texas nurse to contract Ebola while treating a Liberian patient is scheduled to be transferred to a leading research center in suburban Washington.
Nina Pham, 26, will be taken to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Ms. Pham, who is in good condition and reported she is “doing well,” tested positive last weekend for the deadly virus that has ravaged West Africa, killing...
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Nurse with Ebola virus to be moved out of DallasThe first nurse to test positive for the Ebola virus will be transferred from a Dallas hospital to a state-of-the-art National Institutes of Health facility in Bethesda, Md., for treatment, federal and local health officials say.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Nina Pham would be transferred later Thursday. Pham, 26, has been reported in good condition by officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where she contracted the virus while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8.
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Chain reaction: Concern about Ebola nurse’s flight prompts school closings in two statesWhen Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola two weeks ago, authorities said not to worry — he had no symptoms during his flights from Liberia to Dallas. They said the disease could be spread only by someone who was showing signs such as fever and only through bodily fluids such as vomit. They told passengers who rode with Duncan they couldn’t catch it because it isn’t transmitted through the air.
And, they said, if a passenger is sick or has a fever, the person won’t fly.
Now the Centers...