EBOLA-INFECTED NURSE IN STABLE CONDITION AT SPECIALIST MARYLAND HOSPITAL (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 17, 2014, 18:18

In this frame grab from a video courtesy of Texas Health Resources, Nina Pham lies on her hospital bed on Thursday before her transfer to a specialist facility in Maryland. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images

A nurse who contracted the Ebola virus while treating Thomas Eric Duncan is stable and resting comfortably after being transferred to a specialised hospital in Maryland, leaving the embattled Dallas hospital where she works free of an Ebola patient for the first time in nearly three weeks.

Nina Pham, 26, “is quite stable now” and “in good spirits”, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said at a press conference on Friday.

Fauci said Pham has been able to sit up, eat and use her iPad. “She’s a highly intelligent, aware person who knows exactly what’s going on,” he said.

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