Meet Nina Pham, the First American Who Contracted Ebola in U.S.

‘The 26-year-old, from Fort Worth, Texas, was one of the team of medical staff who treated Mr Duncan at the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital’

More than a Nurse: Who Is Ebola Patient Nina Pham? (CNN)

(CNN) -- She tackled one of the toughest jobs any nurse could take -- treating a highly contagious Ebola patient. And somehow along the way, she contracted the deadly virus herself.

Now, as Nina Pham tries to recover in the same hospital where she works, details of her life and career are beginning to emerge.

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