U.S. nurse leaves hospital
(CNN) -- A second Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola
is being released Tuesday from an Atlanta hospital and is free of the
virus, according to Emory University Hospital's Dr. Bruce Ribner.
Nurse Amber Vinson Ebola-free, discharged from hospital
October 28, 2014 -- Updated 1738 GMT (0138 HKT)
Hospital: Dallas nurse is free of Ebola
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Amber Vinson has been discharged from Atlanta hospital
- 5-year-old in New York has respiratory infection, not Ebola, officials say
- Vinson is one of two nurses diagnosed with Ebola after treating Thomas Eric Duncan
- Duncan died on October 8; Vinson became ill days later
The nurse, Amber Vinson, was diagnosed with Ebola about two weeks ago.
Dressed in a gray suit,
Vinson stood at a podium and briefly spoke at a news conference. She
said she was "grateful to be well" and thanked God for giving her the
hope and strength to fight the disease.
She also thanked former
Ebola patients Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol for their donations
of plasma to her and other patients.
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Her grandparents were at
the news conference with her, and she thanked them and the rest of her
family before hugging the medical staff who participated in her care,
one by one.
Ribner said that Vinson
"has recovered from her infection with Ebola virus, and she can return
to ... her community and to her life" without any concerns of
transmitting the virus.
Vinson is one of two
Dallas nurses who was diagnosed with Ebola after treating Liberian
citizen Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed in the
United States with the virus. Duncan, who had symptoms after flying from
Liberia to Texas in September, was admitted to Dallas' Texas Health
Presbyterian Hospital but died on October 8.
The other nurse, Nina
Pham, was treated at a National Institutes of Health facility in
Maryland before being declared Ebola-free on Friday. She was discharged
from the hospital that day and met President Barack Obama at the White
House before returning home.
Vinson was initially hospitalized in Dallas and was transferred to Emory University Hospital on October 15.
Ribner said that the
Emory hospital staff has learned "a great deal" about treating Ebola
after having successfully treated four patients with the virus,
including Vinson. They've learned lessons about fluid and electrolyte
management and that physicians can aggressively treat Ebola patients
even when they become dependent on dialysis, he said. Emory is sharing
those lessons with colleagues in West Africa and across the United
States, Ribner said.
A heavy toll
Ebola has killed more
than 4,900 people, mostly in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra
Leone and Guinea, and infected thousands more in what health officials
call the worst outbreak of the disease in history. The World Health
Organization has said that the mortality rate in the current outbreak,
starting with the first death in December, is about 70%.
Vinson's release leaves only one confirmed Ebola patient -- Dr. Craig Spencer, 33
-- in a U.S. hospital. Spencer, who was diagnosed with Ebola last week
in New York after being in contact with Ebola patients in Guinea, was in
serious but stable condition in a New York hospital Tuesday, according
to New York health officials.
U.S. facilities have
treated nine Ebola patients in recent months, and only one -- Duncan --
has died. All but Vinson and Pham contracted the disease in West Africa.
Many of the nine
patients were given experimental treatments and transfusions of plasma
from Ebola survivors, though doctors have cautioned that they're not
sure whether the measures helped.
Meanwhile, a patient who
was tested for Ebola was negative for the virus, a spokeswoman for the
University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore said Tuesday morning.
The center had said a day earlier that it was treating a potential
Ebola patient.
Child doesn't have Ebola, but still hospitalized
A 5-year-old boy who
recently visited West Africa and had a fever tested negative for the
virus in New York, health officials said. A respiratory infection caused
the child's temperature to spike, which initially caused concern that
he might have had the Ebola virus, New York City's Bellevue Hospital
Center reported Tuesday.
The boy is being taken out of isolation, CNN has learned, but he'll remain hospitalized.
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