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Omaha Steve

(99,073 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 05:02 PM Oct 2014

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.

FULL story at link.



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)


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20141014/ebola-09e64a5586.html

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Dallas nurse with Ebola says she's 'doing well' (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2014 OP
I hope she is. Wait Wut Oct 2014 #1
This is great news. City Lights Oct 2014 #2
So good to hear at the moment she's "doing well". Judi Lynn Oct 2014 #3
yes angel823 Oct 2014 #13
I hope she remains that way. Chemisse Oct 2014 #4
He did NOT blame her! SkyDaddy7 Oct 2014 #7
Wanna do something about it? customerserviceguy Oct 2014 #5
Do they have a gofundme for the family of the dead man? SkyDaddy7 Oct 2014 #8
Why? MosheFeingold Oct 2014 #9
WTF are you talking about?? SkyDaddy7 Oct 2014 #11
Baloney MosheFeingold Oct 2014 #12
You are sick!!! SkyDaddy7 Oct 2014 #16
see, if they believe that crap, banning all flights from Africa just sounds reasonable Skittles Oct 2014 #19
do you think people from liberia can just decide to come to the US and do it all within JI7 Oct 2014 #20
You are correct TexasMommaWithAHat Oct 2014 #18
I am pretty sure that you should calm down a bit. Darb Oct 2014 #15
I never looked customerserviceguy Oct 2014 #17
Anderson Cooper had a great interview with a friend of hers tonight. WhiteAndNerdy Oct 2014 #6
Like with many viruses, if she recovers, then will she be immune? FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #10
She sounds like the kind of person willing to donate as much blood bullwinkle428 Oct 2014 #14

Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
3. So good to hear at the moment she's "doing well".
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 05:57 PM
Oct 2014

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.

Chemisse

(30,793 posts)
4. I hope she remains that way.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 06:31 PM
Oct 2014

I hated the way the CDC head blamed her when this case was first announced, for "breaking protocol."

SkyDaddy7

(6,045 posts)
7. He did NOT blame her!
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 10:26 AM
Oct 2014

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.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
9. Why?
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:08 AM
Oct 2014

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)
11. WTF are you talking about??
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:19 AM
Oct 2014

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)
12. Baloney
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 12:36 PM
Oct 2014

He knew (or should have known) and decided to come to the USA to get better care, putting everyone in his path at risk.

Skittles

(152,965 posts)
19. see, if they believe that crap, banning all flights from Africa just sounds reasonable
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 04:04 AM
Oct 2014

that's how Fox News hooks them

JI7

(89,182 posts)
20. do you think people from liberia can just decide to come to the US and do it all within
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 04:18 AM
Oct 2014

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)
18. You are correct
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 06:43 PM
Oct 2014

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)
15. I am pretty sure that you should calm down a bit.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 02:46 PM
Oct 2014

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)
17. I never looked
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 05:36 PM
Oct 2014

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)
6. Anderson Cooper had a great interview with a friend of hers tonight.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 03:49 AM
Oct 2014

She sounds like a wonderful person, and I wish her the best.

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
10. Like with many viruses, if she recovers, then will she be immune?
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:09 AM
Oct 2014

Not sure with Ebola. If so, she would be in high demand.

bullwinkle428

(20,627 posts)
14. She sounds like the kind of person willing to donate as much blood
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 02:13 PM
Oct 2014

or plasma as they'll safely allow her to, in order to help others who've contracted it.

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