Nina Pham, the Dallas nurse who became infected with Ebola after caring for the late Thomas Eric Duncan, can be seen in a newly released video thanking her caretakers for their support.
Pham filmed the video from her Texas isolation unit shortly before she was flown to a National Institutes of Health facility in Bethesda, Maryland. She tears up in the video, telling her treating physician Gary Weinstein and another worker, "I love you guys," before saying goodbye.
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