Nurse Infected With Ebola Share Cheerful Video Message [VIDEO]

DALLAS (AP) — The first nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected Liberian man at a Dallas hospital has been transferred to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center near Washington for treatment in a specialized isolation unit.

But before nurse Nina Pham left Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, she delivered a video message from her Dallas hospital room, which was posted online.

In the video, the 26-year-old is sitting up in her hospital bed and is smiling and talking. She says "Come to Maryland. Everybody," and laughs into the camera before wiping away tears with a tissue handed by an attendant in full protective gear.

Her attending physician tells her that everyone is proud of her.

Pham was transported from the hospital by ambulance and escorted onto an executive jet in Dallas. And upon arrival in Maryland last night, she was able to gingerly walk down the stairs of the plane into a waiting ambulance.