Friday, October 24, 2014

America Nurse Cured of #Ebola, Nina Pham Anxious to Reunite with Family, Dog

Two weeks after she tested positive for Ebola, the Dallas nurse was declared free of the virus Friday and discharged from the Washington-area hospital where she had been treated in a special containment unit.

Nina Pham,26 was infected while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who later died at Pham’s hospital, Texas Health Presbyterian. She was the first person to contract the virus on American soil. 
She met President Obama,at the White House hours after being discharged               .
 The second infected America nurse, Amber Vinson has also been declared virus-free, but she will remain in treatment in Atlanta until further notice.

Meanwhile,New Yokers are in panic as another America physician who recently returned to New York from Ebola-ravaged west African country of Guinea, has tested positive for the disease.

Craig Spencer, 33, a doctor who lives in the Harlem neighborhood of the city, was taken to hospital in New York on Thursday after displaying symptoms consistent with those caused by Ebola, including a fever of 100.3F (38C) – lower than the 103F (39.5C) that was initial reported by health officials.

Source- BBC.COM

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