Dallas Nurse Nina Pham Will Be Transferred to NIH Facility in Bethsada, Md.

October 16, 2014

(Washington Post) – Nina Pham, one of two nurses infected with the Ebola virus while caring for a patient in Dallas, will be transferred to a National Institutes of Health clinical center in Bethesda, officials and the NIH said Thursday. Pham’s transfer to the facility, one of four in the United States with a special biocontainment unit, will occur  Thursday evening, according to Anthony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who was testifying at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday afternoon. He said Pham would receive “state of the art care” there.