A Texas nurse treated in Atlanta for the Ebola virus will be released Tuesday from Emory University Hospital, the hospital said. She is the fourth person with the virus successfully treated at Emory.
Amber Vinson, 29, was one of two nurses from Dallas who contracted the virus after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from the disease, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Duncan, who traveled to the United States from Liberia, died of the virus Oct. 8.
After testing positive for the virus, both nurses were flown to hospitals outside of Dallas for treatment.
Vinson was admitted to Emory's Serious Communicable Disease Unit on Oct. 15 and is now virus-free. The other nurse, Nina Pham, was released from a Maryland hospital on Friday after doctors declared her free of the virus.
Pham said she felt “fortunate and blessed to be standing here today,” as she left the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., where she had been since she arrived Oct. 16. Pham also got a hug from President Barack Obama at the White House.
Vinson is the fourth person to be released from Emory after treatment for Ebola.
In August, Emory treated two U.S. aid workers who were infected in Liberia and evacuated to Atlanta. Both Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were released from the unit within three weeks. A third patient, who requested to remain anonymous, was released earlier this month.
Vinson is expected to speak Tuesday at a 1 p.m. news conference at the hospital.
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