Dallas Animal Services Launches Donation Drive For Ebola Patient's Dog
Dallas Animal Services is making sure Nina Pham's small dog will be well taken care of while she is in isolation at Texas Presbyterian Hospital fighting the Ebola virus.
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Dallas Animal Services is making sure Nina Pham's small dog will be well taken care of while she is in isolation at Texas Presbyterian Hospital fighting the Ebola virus.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital released the statement on Nina Pham's behalf this morning - as she is in isolation and being treated for Ebola that she contracted while caring for a Liberian man who died from the disease.
The CDC said that one other person was in close contact with a Dallas nurse after her Ebola symptoms began to show. That person is now known to be an Alcon employee.
A Dallas nurse, who caught Ebola while treating a Liberian patient who died of the disease, has received a plasma transfusion donated by a doctor who beat the virus.
Members of a Texas task force on Ebola have scheduled their first public hearing as a nurse who contracted the disease remains hospitalized in Dallas.
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Addressing "breach in protocol" concerns, officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas held a series of town hall meetings Monday for hospital employees.
According to officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nurse Nina Pham is clinically stable after contracting the Ebola virus while caring for the first U.S. patient Thomas Eric Duncan.
The block where the Dallas nurse infected with Ebola lives has pretty much been taken over. Needless to say the attention, cordoned off areas and traffic are all things out of the norm for the M streets neighborhood.
A state judge signed an order Monday temporarily blocking ash from the incineration of a Dallas Ebola victim's belongings to be disposed of at a southwest Louisiana site.
News that a nurse caring for the nation's first Ebola patient has now contracted the disease has other North Texas hospitals reviewing procedures and providing additional training. But, officials with Dallas' Parkland hospital say their staffers are not panicking.
One day after the Center For Disease Control confirmed Nina Pham, 26, has Ebola, her father told CBS 11 News she's "in fine spirits."
Federal health officials on Monday urged the nation's hospitals to "think Ebola" and launched a review of procedures for treating infected patients, while the World Health Organization called the outbreak "the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times."
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