The boyfriend of Nina Pham, the nurse who contracted the Ebola virus from a Liberian national, may have been admitted to a hospital.
Officials said on Wednesday that a second person was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with Ebola.
The second person was later identified as Amber Joy Vinson, another nurse.
A third case could be on its way, because Alcon CEO Jeff George sent an email to staff saying that another worker had been quarantined.
That third person may be Pham’s boyfriend, according to Got News. The website said that it received word from two different Alcon employees, both of whom asked not to be identified, that the person was the boyfriend that was admitted.
It also said that Pham’s parents work at Alcon, as does the boyfriend.
Rev. Jim Khoi of Our Lady of Fatima Church in East Fort Worth, who was updated on her condition by Pham’s mother, told Dallas News that a friend of Pham’s is being monitored for the disease, although he said he didn’t know the friend’s relationship.
“Others have said the patient being monitored is Pham’s boyfriend,” said Dallas News.
Pham, 26, contracted Ebola from Thomas Eric Duncan, who traveled to Dallas from Liberia to visit family members.
