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Nina Pham

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Nina Pham is a nurse, born in Fort Worth in 1988, who contracted Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan. She is the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. She recovered and was released from hospital on October 24, 2014.

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1988

Nina Pham born in Forth Worth

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Nina Pham is born in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the eldest of three daughters born to Vietnamese immigrants who left the country after the Vietnam War, and eventually settled in Fort Worth. A former neighbor of the Phams, described Nina as an active little girl who became a nurse because “she has a big heart.”