Ebola Hearing: The Response Has Been Unacceptable
Ebola Hearing: The Response Has Been Unacceptable – Federal health officials said Thursday they still don’t know how two Dallas nurses caught Ebola from a patient.
Now one of nurses will be transferred to the National Institutes of Health outside of Washington on Thursday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health said Nina Pham, who contracted Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, will be transferred on Thursday evening.
The news came during during a hearing about Ebola on Capitol Hill in which officials criticized the nation’s response to the virus. During the hearing, the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas came under fire for failure to meet adequate standards to protect staff from contracting the deadly disease.
During the hearing, Dr. Daniel Vargas of Texas Presbyterian Health admitted that the hospital had made mistakes during their treatment of Duncan. For his part, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, acknowledged that the hospital is dealing with “a difficult situation.”
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