Dallas nurse with Ebola says she's 'doing well'
Source: AP-Excite
By EMILY SCHMALL and NOMAAN MERCHANT
DALLAS (AP) A Texas nurse who became infected with Ebola while treating the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. said Tuesday that she was "doing well," while the World Health Organization projected that West Africa could see up to 10,000 new infections a week within two months.
Nurse Nina Pham was among about 70 staff members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, according to medical records.
The 26-year-old nurse was in the Liberian man's room often, from the day he was placed in intensive care until the day before he died last week.
"I'm doing well and want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers," Pham said in a statement issued by the hospital, which said doctors were hopeful that she would recover. DALLAS (AP) A Texas nurse who became infected with Ebola while treating the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. said Tuesday that she was "doing well," while the World Health Organization projected that West Africa could see up to 10,000 new infections a week within two months.
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Members of the Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church pray during evening mass in Fort Worth, Texas, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Ebola patient Nina Pham is a member of the church. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Mark Rogers)
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Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I'd be terrified beyond words.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Hope she continues to improve and is home soon. Thanks, Omaha Steve.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)Hope the momentum will pull her away from danger, and return her to complete health.
She deserves a tremendous reward for her courage and compassion for fellow human beings. The world is blessed with her presence.
indeed. Couldn't agree more.
Angel in Texas
Chemisse
(30,793 posts)I hated the way the CDC head blamed her when this case was first announced, for "breaking protocol."
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)However, the FACT is CDC protocol was broken! Whether it was poor training or no training somewhere somehow the CDC protocol was broken, period. The CDC works with far more contagious diseases than Ebola on a daily basis & no one gets infected! No one at Emory in Atlanta got infected & they have cared for TWO Ebola patients...Same in Boston & across Europe!
The scientist at the CDC know how the virus spreads & if a nurse gets infected then the nurse broke protocol, period! The question is WHY.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I just did: http://www.gofundme.com/fsqtbo
A few bucks and a lot of well wishes would help her get past this challenge.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)I am sorry, but the guy lied and infected at least two (I hear three this AM -- the nurse's boyfriend) people because he lied.
My sympathy for him and his family is VERY limited.
If this spreads just a hair more, there will be civil disorder and probably marshal law of some kind. Just the kind of thing the jack-booted-thugs have waited a generation for.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)The man DID NOT LIE!!!!!!!
He told them where he had been & the hospital sent him home! You are one cold hearted person! That, or you are simply IGNORANT TO THE FACTS!!
The man helped take a pregnant lady to the hospital in Liberia that everyone at the time thought was having pregnancy difficulties not symptoms of Ebola...He came to America a healthy person & got sick many days after he was here!
The incompetent Texas hospital with poorly trained staff is THE REASON why the two nurses are infected & more are sure to come...Get your facts straight before demonizing the dead! Shame on you!!!
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)He knew (or should have known) and decided to come to the USA to get better care, putting everyone in his path at risk.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Skittles
(152,965 posts)that's how Fox News hooks them
JI7
(89,182 posts)a few days ?
and if he knew he had ebola and wanted treatment he would have told them right away.
are we to believe he had this huge plan to get treatment in the US but once he gets here he just accepts the lack of treatment for a serious disease that will kill if not given care ?
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)I'm pretty sure I read that he had obtained his visa before he ever came in contact with the young woman he helped.
He is not at fault.
Darb
(2,807 posts)You are not helping and in fact are actually making things worse. The lunatics in the Republican Party are politicizing this and everything else and they do not need your help in building hysteria.
Talking about "civil disorder" and "jack-booted thugs" is irresponsible at best.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I expect they're eventually going to have some sort of lawsuit, with an out-of-court settlement, that hospital probably doesn't want too much of its faulty internal procedures being made public.
At this point, they should consider themselves lucky that they didn't come down with this, apparently it doesn't take an excessive amount of exposure to get the strain of the virus that he carried.
WhiteAndNerdy
(365 posts)She sounds like a wonderful person, and I wish her the best.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Not sure with Ebola. If so, she would be in high demand.
bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)or plasma as they'll safely allow her to, in order to help others who've contracted it.