A nurse from Dallas who has been deemed the second confirmed Ebola case on American soil received a plasma transfusion from Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly on Monday afternoon.

The nurse, 26-year-old Nina Pham, was identified to be the medical worker who caught the dreaded Ebola virus Monday after working with the medical team at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to help treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the first reported Ebola patient in the U.S. who recently passed away.

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According to Fort Worth church pastor Rev. Jim Khoi, the Dallas nurse received a transfusion of plasma known to contain Ebola-fighting anti-bodies.

Reports revealed that the plasma was from Texas doctor and Ebola survivor Kent Brantly who travelled to the Dallas hospital where the 26-year-old nurse-turned-patient is being treated.

This was confirmed by spokesperson Jeremy Blume from the Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical Christian International Relief organization based in North Carolina.

Brantly contracted Ebola after working on the front lines during the long-running battle against the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.

According to the Ebola survivor, he had offered his blood to Duncan when he tested positive for the virus but reportedly their blood types did not match.

Meanwhile, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden recently declared Pham to be "clinically stable" and apologized to the Dallas hospital regarding his comments on a possible "breach of protocol" that led to the nurse contracting the disease.

"I apologize if people thought I was criticizing the hospital. And I feel awful that a health care worker became infected while helping an Ebola patient," he stated, explaining that his remarks did not reflect the medical facility's efforts to containing the virus.

As of recent records from the World Health Organization, over 4,000 people have already died from Ebola, including thousands from West African countries such as Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.

Officials have urged medical facilities to keep a close watch for patients with fever or other signs of Ebola, especially those who have travelled to and from the West African nations. 

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