U.S. nurse who had Ebola is virus free: health officials

Texas nurse Nina Pham is shown in this still image taken from video in her isolation room at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, October 16, 2014. REUTERS/Texas Health Resources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola is now free of the virus, U.S. health officials said on Friday. Nina Pham, who contracted the disease while treating a man who later died of Ebola in a Dallas hospital, had been undergoing treatment at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, since Oct. 16. The NIH scheduled a Friday news conference to discuss Pham's discharge. (Writing by Bill Trott; Editing by Jim Loney)