Ebola patient identified by family

[B2G]

Serious prayers for this young woman.

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Family identifies Ebola patient
Marjorie Owens, WFAA 12:18 p.m. CDT October 13, 2014

DALLAS — A Dallas nurse diagnosed with the Ebola virus over the weekend is a former Texas Christian University student identified by a family member as 26-year-old Nina Pham.

The family reached out to WFAA Monday morning and shared an image of the nurse who grew up in Fort Worth.

A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Pham became infected while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from the virus days before the nurse's diagnosis.

Pham graduated from TCU's nursing program in 2010 and is the first person to contract the disease while in the Unites States.



http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/tarrant-county/2014/10/13/ebola-tcu-christian-student-dallas-nurse/17192239/

[NYC_SKP]

1. How very sad. I hope that somehow she will survive this horrible thing.

It's a reminder to us all that hospitals are by no means free of danger.

Pathogens are ornery and ever-evolving.

Some bacteria resist commonly used hand sanitizers and are persistent.

c-diff is one.

[Warpy]

4. Ebola is a virus, a particularly nasty one

that can sneak through a lot of defenses.

Barrier methods in use in Africa are superior to what hospitals generally make available to nurses and 30% of deaths from ebola in Africa are health care workers, mostly nurses.

Republicans need to be hammered hard on this issue during the election season for cutting essential services like the NIH and CDC. We need to get them out of office. It's clear many lives depend on it.

[bullwinkle428]

2. In the press conference yesterday, they mentioned a pet in the home

where she lives. I wonder if this is the dog in the picture. I hope she is able to pull through, and hope that officials handle the dog better than they did in Spain.

[840high]

3. According to local news - dog

is healthy and well cared for.

[Avalux]

9. They are keeping the dog for her until she recovers.

The report on my local news said they have no intention of euthanizing the dog, and are expecting her to recover so they can be together again. She is very attached to her dog. It was a positive bit of news in all this.

[BlindTiresias]

11. Dogs are carriers

Hope they are going to test it at some point.

[Marrah_G]

5. I hope she survives

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. Is this the nurse that failed to notify docs that Duncan was just here from Liberia or...

was that a different nurse?

[B2G]

8. No.

She was a part of his care team after he was admitted.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. Thank you, B2G. Appreciate the quick response =) nt

[RobertEarl]

7. Let's hope she is fine

And that other hospitals don't take this lightly and do everything possible to protect the caregivers who work to help our brothers and sisters.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

12. National nurses union says hospitals are taking it lightly, or at least not seriously enough to

even train or provide procedures for a possible ebola admittance.