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"I feel fortunate and blessed to be standing here today," said Nina Pham, the 26-year-old Texas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for a patient in Dallas earlier this month. "Our patient Nina Pham is free of the Ebola virus," said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Pham will now "resume a normal, healthy and happy life," Fauci said.
Pham had been in the care of doctors at a state-of-the-art clinic to which she was transferred by the NIH on Oct. 16., after being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, the hospital where Pham is a nurse.
Pham contracted the disease while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian who arrived in Dallas with the virus on Sept. 20. Duncan later died of the disease.
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Fauci said the reason for Pham's speedy recovery was "she got into a healthcare system that was able to give her intensive care early, [and] she was then transferred to another healthcare system that was able to give her everything she needed."
The facility, in Bethesda, Maryland, is one of four in the United States with "a special biocontainment unit," the Washington Post reported.
Pham will be reunited with her dog Bentley, who was also quarantined at a military base in Grand Prairie, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, WFAA 8 ABC reported.
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