The Second U.S. Ebola patient has been identified

The Dallas health care worker who contacted the Ebola virus over the weekend has been identified as nurse Nina Pham, her family confirmed.

Nurse Pham is 26 years old and was  infected while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian Ebola patient who was also the first Ebola victim to die in the United States. Nina graduated from Texas Christian University's nursing program in 2010,she is the first person known to contract the disease while in the United States.

Across the nation, health care professionals continued to evaluate the best way to treat U.S. Ebola patients should in case more victims emerge. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was asked on "ABC's Good Morning America" if Ebola patients should be sent only to highly specialized "containment" hospitals.

"That is something that should be seriously considered," the immunologist, said.