A second Dallas nurse who was undergoing treatment for Ebola will be discharged on Tuesday after tests showed she’s virus-free.
Twenty-nine-year-old Amber Vinson, who was being treated in Atlanta, was a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and treated Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola at the hospital on Oct. 8.
Vinson’s family announced on Oct. 22 that doctors could no longer detect the virus in her body, a step toward recovery
Vinson was one of two nurses who became infected while caring for Duncan. The other infected nurse, Nina Pham, was released Oct. 24 from a hospital near Washington. Pham was the first person to contract Ebola within the U.S. Read more…
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