Ebola infected nurse in Dallas being called 'heroic'

CDC officials believe the second Ebola patient in Dallas, a female nurse who provided for Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan who died last week, has only come into contact with one other person. VPC

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00:01 A nurse on the front lines in the fight against
00:03 Ebola is now on the defense at some point there was
00:07 a breach in protocol. And that breach in protocol resulted in
00:12 this infection. Early Sunday morning -- state lab in Austin would
00:16 confirm the second Ebola diagnosis in the country's history. This time
00:20 a nurse infected while caring for the liberian national Thomas Eric
00:24 Duncan Duncan tested positive for the virus late last month. He
00:28 was isolated inside dallas' Presbyterian Hospital. And would die eleven days
00:32 later. Ultimately losing his life to a virus that devastated his
00:36 native West Africa is fight over his nurses just beginning. So
00:41 when we got this. Phone call which we thought we might
00:45 get. We put in an action team in place. And they
00:50 have been working all this evening so. As people waking up.
00:56 They know. They are saying. Overnight Hazmat crews dispatched to the
01:00 nurses and street apartment. Another crude. A Hazmat response coming two
01:10 days after the -- first drove herself to the hospital officials
01:13 say ninety minutes after she walked in with a fever she
01:16 was quarantined. Breaking the links in the chain of transmission is
01:21 the key to preventing further spread that's how we stopped it
01:25 in. Lagos Nigeria. That's how we will stop it in Dallas.
01:32 While contagious the CDC believes that the nurse only came into
01:35 contact with one other person. That person is being closely monitored
01:40 asked for the nurse or she remains in isolation and is
01:43 said to be in stable condition. In Dallas I'm Sebastien Robertson.