Ebola outbreak: Dallas nurse who has Ebola received blood from American Ebola survivor Kent Brantly

The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse who contracted Ebola from Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan has been identified as Nina Pham.  She got a blood transfusion from American Ebola survivor Kent Brantly as stated by Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for the Samaritan Purse.  Kent Brantly was working for the Samaritan Purse in Liberia when he contracted the virus.

 

The nurse is ‘’clinically stable’’ CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said.  The nurse is said to have had numerous contact with the Liberian Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan as such, there may have been a ‘’breach in protocol’’.

The nurse, Pham is described as a devout catholic who always put other people’s interest ahead of her own.  It is a philosophy she shares with her family said Tom Ha, a family friend.

Health officials in the US have increased monitory of hospitals workers treating Ebola and ensuring the deadly virus does not spread.

The WHO described this particular outbreak as ‘’unquestionably the most severe acute public health emergency in modern times.

‘’I have never seen a health event strike such fear and terror well beyond the affected countries’’ Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO’s Director General said.

Meanwhile people arriving from the three nations hardest hit by Ebola – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea –have started getting screening including having their temperature taken at New York’s John F. Kennedy international airport on Saturday.  Washington’s Dulles, Newark, Chicago’s O’Hare and Atlanta airports will begin screening by Thursdays.