Amber Vinson at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.Photo: AP
Amber Vinson, the second nurse to contract Ebola after treating Thomas Duncan at a Texas hospital, will be going home Tuesday.
Vinson, 29, will be discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, which had confirmed that she was free of the virus Oct. 24, two days after her family said the virus could not be detected in her blood.
She became symptomatic Oct. 14, a day after flying on a commercial flight from Cleveland to Dallas. She tested positive for the disease and was flown to Emory on Oct. 15.
Three people remain in quarantine in Ohio and 163 are being monitored for symptoms after her trip to visit her family and plan her wedding.
None of the people who had contact with Vinson have shown signs of the virus and officials anticipate her Ohio contacts will be removed from the contact list between Oct. 31 and Nov. 4, according to reports.
Vinson's family has said that she decided to fly back to Dallas the day before she fell ill after consulting with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
She was one of two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who contracted the virus while treating Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the disease in the US. He died Oct. 8.
The other nurse, Nina Pham, was treated at Presbyterian before being relocated to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., on Oct. 16.
Pham was discharged Oct. 24 after she recovered and hugged President Obama in the Oval Office in a well-publicized photo op.
It remains unclear exactly how the nurses became infected.
Vinson attended to Duncan on Sept. 30, the day he tested positive for Ebola, according to medical records that Duncan's family released to The Associated Press.
The reports note that she wore protective gear and a face shield, hazardous materials suit and protective footwear.
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