Nurse Infected With Ebola To Transfer To NIH In Bethesda

National Institutes of Health

One of two nurses who contracted Ebola in a Dallas hospital while treating a patient there will be transferred to an isolation unit on the NIH campus in Bethesda, NBC News reported Thursday.

According to the Frederick News-Post, the nurse will arrive on Thursday night at Frederick Municipal Airport before being taken to NIH.

The nurse, Nina Pham, was diagnosed with the virus on Sunday after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died after contracting Ebola in Liberia.

Pham this week released a statement thanking people for their support and is reportedly in “good” condition. She’s been held in isolation since the diagnosis.

“I’ve spoken with NIH Director Dr. Collins, who has provided assurances that NIH is specifically equipped to handle patients infected with Ebola. NIH has been on the front lines of this issue, and I commend Dr. Collins and his team for their leadership on this urgent challenge,” read a statement by Rep. Chris Van Hollen. “I’m confident that all necessary steps and precautions will be taken to treat this patient and prevent the further spread of the disease.”

In the weeks since the deadly Ebola outbreak began in West Africa, the NIH has prepped for human testing of a possible Ebola vaccine and cared for man who was flown to the U.S. from Sierra Leone with a high-risk exposure to the virus. NIH said the man’s fever passed and was later determined not to be related to an Ebola infection. He was released last week.

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