Nina Pham Ebola Update: Dallas Nurse Doing Well As She Continues Treatment; Blood From Infected Survivor Key To Her Improving Condition?

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The Nina Pham Ebola update bodes well for the Dallas nurse as she's reportedly getting better. Is the blood from the infected survivor the key to her improving condition? Doctors have yet to determine the answer.

The 11 Alive website offered a Nina Pham Ebola update when it released the statement by the nurse for her supporters.

"I'm doing well and want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers. I am blessed by the support of family and friends and am blessed to be cared for by the best team of doctors and nurses in the world here at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas," Pham wrote.

The 26-year-old is one of the nurses who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first case of Ebola in the US, who died on Wednesday.

The Ebola pandemic is alarming in the sense that it's quickly spreading. The World Health Organization projected that as many as 10,000 new cases each week within two months while the mortality percentage of an infected person has risen to 70%, said Click2Houston.

To date, the Ebola virus already killed more than 4,000 people, majority of whom are Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

According to the Nina Pham Ebola update from NBC News, Dr. Kent Brantly has again donated blood for the Dallas nurse.

It's not the first time that Dr. Brantly has donated blood to infected patients, as he also gave blood to NBC News cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who was infected while on coverage in West Africa, and Dr. Rick Sacra who contacted the virus in Liberia.

"Experts hope the antibodies in Brantly's blood will kick-start Pham's immune response to Ebola," the news site said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still trying to determine how Nina Pham was infected with Ebola since all the health care workers who treated Duncan wore protective gloves, face shields, masks, and full-body suits, said the Associated Press.

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