第一発症者のニーナさん、勤務先の長老教会附属病院では大勢の医療関係者が感染の可能性が

 

たかくと手もではないが対応が出来ないと言うことで対応が出来る拠点病院に移動を願い出られ

 

無事メリーランドのベテスダの施設に転院が完了です。

 

 

　面白い地名ですね。ベテスダと言うのはキリストがエルサレムに行かれた折りに療養施設があった池の

 

名前です。（ヨハネの福音書５章１節）

 

 

　こちらがその施設でこの巨大な病院で今のところ大変お元気な様子で何よりです。　

 

　　こちらでの生活は快適な様子で今のところ症状は落ち着いている模様です。　

 

 

　　　当人は普通のパジャマ姿ですが看護する側はそうは行きません。

 

 

そして治療は米国で唯一可能なのは回復した人の血液から生成される血清です。　提供者はこちら。

 

 

一方第二の発症看護師のアンバー　ビンソンさんはジョウジャ州アトランタの感染症対策拠点の

 

エモリー大学病院アイソレーション ・ ユニットに移転完了です。　

 

　　そして、気になるのが新たな感染者の発生で、それは時間の問題という次第です。　おかげで

 

米国の株価は大混乱。

 

 

　特に影響を受けそうな航空各社は軒並み株安です。　

 

 

　以下はニーナさんのお元気な様子とアンバーさんの動静を報じるABCのネットニュースです。

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nina Pham, the first of two nurses to contract Ebola in the United States, joked with her physician before beginning her trip to the National Institutes of Health clinical center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Gary Weinstein recorded his conversation with Pham, 26, before she left Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas today. It was her first appearance on camera since her diagnosis.

"Thanks for getting well. Thanks for being part of the volunteer team," Weinstein told Pham. "We're really proud of you."

"Come to Maryland, everybody," she said.

Pham contracted Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan at the Dallas hospital. She was diagnosed Sunday.

Duncan, a Liberian national, became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States Sept. 30. He died on Oct. 8.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital requested that Pham be moved to the Special Clinical Studies Unit of the NIH Clinical Center, according to a statement from the NIH. She arrived there late Thursday.

"She will receive state-of-the-art care in this high-level containment facility, which is one of a small number of such facilities in the United States," according to the statement. "The unit staff is trained in strict infection control practices optimized to prevent spread of potentially transmissible agents such as Ebola."

The Dallas hospital asked to move Pham because the Ebola situation left it short-staffed, the hospital said in a statement.

"With many of the medical professionals who would normally staff the intensive care unit sidelined for continuous monitoring, it is in the best interest of Nina, hospital employees, nurses, physicians and the community to give the hospital an opportunity to prepare for whatever comes next," the statement said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said the Bethesda isolation facility where Pham is headed has only two beds.

"She will occupy one of them,” Fauci said.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said the move would help the hospital deal with any other new patients and to carefully monitor the 50 health care workers from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, who might have been exposed to Ebola and need to be carefully monitored.

Another nurse who treated Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola Wednesday. Amber Vinson, 29, arrived at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Tuesday morning with a fever and was diagnosed with Ebola in the early hours of Wednesday morning. She was relocated to Emory University Hospital's isolation unit Wednesday night.

Earlier this week, Pham's and Vinson's co-workers accused the hospital of sloppy protocols and failing to train and equip them properly to handle Duncan, leaving them vulnerable to Ebola. They released a statement through the National Nurses' Union.

"Nurses had to interact with Mr. Duncan with whatever protective equipment was available, at a time when he had copious amounts of diarrhea and vomiting which produces a lot of contagious fluids," the statement reads.

The hospital has insisted it complied with safety protocols established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.