WASHINGTON
A female nurse who helped treat the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., tested positive for the virus, according to officials at a Texas hospital on Sunday.
Texas Health Resources chief clinical officer Dan Varga Sunday told reporters at a press conference that the nurse was in full protective gear while providing care to Thomas Eric Duncan who died Wednesday from the virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, will conduct confirmatory tests. If those tests are positive, it would be the first case of contraction of tranmission of Ebola in the U.S. Results are expcted later Sunday.
Varga noted that the nurse, who is in stable condition, reported a fever on Friday in a self-monitoring regimen required by the CDC, and was isolated within 90 minutes.
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