EBOLA IN THE U.S: INFECTED NURSE NINA PHAM MOVED FROM TEXAS TO MARYLAND

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Nina Pham, one of the two nurses who contracted Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, has been moved to National Institutes of Health facility in Maryland.

Pham, a 26-year-old critical-care nurse, was diagnosed with Ebola on Sunday after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who last month became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States.

Pham and Amber Joy Vinson, the other nurse who contracted Ebola, were among 76 hospital workers who treated Duncan before his death.

Vinson, 29, was transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Wednesday.

The Atlanta and Bethesda facilities are two of four in the United States specially equipped to handle Ebola.

Although Pham's family did not request for the move, it had to be done for lack of staffing.