DALLAS — The Texas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for the first individual to decease of the virus in the U. S. has been identified as 26-year-old Nina Pham.
Health functionaries have non released the nurse’s name. but Yahoo News identified Pham through public records and a province nursing database.
Then on Monday. Pham’s household confirmed her individuality to local Dallas ABC News affiliate WFAA.
Pham. a critical attention nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas. is one of at least 50 people who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan before he passed off last Wednesday.
Pham has been in isolation since late Friday. The CDC confirmed her Ebola diagnosing on Sunday. It is the first clip the deathly virus has of all time been transmitted in the United States.
The Dallas occupant is a 2010 alumnus of Texas Christian University and has been a nurse since June 2010. harmonizing to province records.
CDC manager Dr. Thomas Frieden said Pham is in stable status at Texas Health Presbyterian. An unidentified individual Pham had close contact with last hebdomad is besides in isolation at the infirmary. but Frieden said that person has non become ailment.
Research workers have non determined how Pham specifically contracted the disease from Duncan. who died on his tenth twenty-four hours of intensive attention at Texas Health Presbyterian.
“If this one person was infected and we don’t cognize how — within the isolation unit — so it is possible that other persons could hold been infected every bit good. ” Frieden said during a imperativeness conference. “We see them to be at hazard and we are making an in-depth reappraisal and probe. ”
A twenty-four hours earlier. Frieden characterized the transmittal from Duncan to Pham as a possible breach in safety protocols. On Monday he apologized for those comments.
“Some interpreted that as happening mistake with the infirmary or the wellness attention worker. and I’m sorry if that was the feeling given. that was surely non my purpose. ” Frieden said. “What we need to make. is all take duty for bettering the safety of those on the forepart lines. I feel atrocious that a wellness attention worker became infected in the attention of an Ebola patient. She was at that place seeking to assist the first patient survive. ”
Tom Ha. a longtime friend of Pham’s household. told the Dallas Morning News that it is in the nurse’s cistrons to travel out of her manner to help others.
“I expect. with the large bosom that she has. she went beyond what she was supposed to make to assist anyone in demand. ” Ha told the newspaper
