Posted on 10/13/2014 1:35:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The second person to show Ebola symptoms on US soil has been identified as Nina Pham, a 26-year-old nurse.
Pham's family confirmed her identity on Monday.
She was diagnosed with Ebola on Sunday and is the first person to contract the disease in the US. Pham is currently in "clinically stable" condition, according to officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pham is reportedly a nurse in Dallas who was caring for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
Duncan contracted the disease in Liberia and then traveled to the US, where he first started showing symptoms.
The CDC is investigating exactly how the transmission occurred, but a protocol breach is suspected.
"I feel awful that a healthcare worker got infected," CDC Director Tom Frieden said during a press conference Monday. "She was there trying to help the first patient survive, and now she has become infected."
Pham's family provided this photo of her to news stations:
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This is a family-provided photo of Nina Pham, the Dallas healthcare worker (and her dog) who is infected with #Ebola pic.twitter.com/3Fj5MHZllk — Brian Ries (@moneyries) October 13, 2014
Thank-you. God bless you and yours.
Dogs don’t get sick from it even if testing shows antibodies to Ebola in their bloodstream, and the dog has not been tested to my knowledge. There’s no documented evidence of dogs passing Ebola to humans, even in Africa.
I am praying for her.
“God, please give your handmaiden of the Lord, the strength to overcome her illness.”
Amen.
Amen, I say to you, too.
Prayers for this beautiful girl and her loved ones.
I hope she recovers. And I am glad she is not Caucasian. Because if she were and she recovers...RACISM,
Wow... Blame the nurse ... And kill her off at the same time...
We surely are governed by the most evil and vile
People ever to have ruled in this country....
Yes.
“My theory about that family is that they were probably never in that house..Duncan probably called them beforehand saying that he was exposed to Ebola and that he was coming”
Why would you even say that? There is zero evidence that’s what happened. Every witness said that he was home until the relative called for an ambulance. (And she only knew to call when she saw his eyes)
What HAPPENED is that the hospital gave him an ‘all clear’ and he came home to expose his family.
From what I’m understanding, Ebola is not very contagious until it’s in its final stages. That is why the family’s alright (at the moment). That’s why the nurse was infected. She was present when he was shedding the largest viral load.
One guy infected two people. If each of those people similarly infects two people, and those in turn infect two people, the number of infections grows rather quickly.
1
2
8
32
128
512
2,048
8,192
32,768
131,072
524,288
2,097,152
8,388,608
33,554,432
134,217,728
536,870,912
2,147,483,648
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