By Sky News US Team
An American nurse who contracted ebola while treating a dying patient has received a plasma transfusion donated by a doctor who beat the virus.
The healthcare worker, identified as 26-year-old Nina Pham, has been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas since Friday.
She is reported to be in a stable condition.
She has received a plasma donation from Kent Brantly, the first American to return to the US from Liberia to be treated for ebola.
Experts have been considering giving the blood of survivors to ebola patients as a way to kick-start their immune system.
Dr Brantly has also donated blood to American cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who continues to improve at Nebraska Medical Center and tweeted: "Feeling like I'm on the road to good health."
Ms Pham was one of about 70 caregivers who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who succumbed to ebola on 8 October.
Dr Tom Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Monday that health officials remain uncertain on exactly how she contracted the deadly virus.
Ms Pham, who had been wearing full protective gear, most likely became infected because of a breach of care protocol, the director previously said.
On Monday, he offered an apology to healthcare workers who complained that it sounded like he was blaming the nurse instead of questioning whether the protocols and training she received were sufficient.
"I feel awful that a hospital worker became infected taking care of an ebola patient," Dr Frieden said.
"We have to rethink the way we address ebola infection control because even a single infection is unacceptable," he said.
Dr Frieden's comments came ahead of a meeting between top health officials and President Barack Obama.
The White House said the President wants an update on steps under way to ensure the national health system is prepared to deal with the disease, which has killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa.
The US has already implemented enhanced screening measures for flights arriving from ebola-stricken countries, including hardest-hit Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Meanwhile, a waste disposal facility in Louisiana has refused to accept the ashes generated by the incinerated belongings of Mr Duncan.
Chemical Waste Management Inc-Lake Charles said although it was permitted to accept such material, the company would not do so until state officials agreed it would pose no threat to the public.
The facility issued the statement after Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced his plans to seek a court order blocking the transport of the waste across state lines from Texas.
A scare at Boston's Logan International Airport caused emergency crews in protective gear to remove five passengers with flu-like symptoms from Emirates flight 237 from Dubai, but officials said later there was no ebola threat.
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