Ebola-infected American nurse discharged from hospital

Amber Vinson, the second American nurse to contract the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), has been discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where she was receiving treatment.

Vinson contracted the virus at a hospital in Dallas while attending to Thomas Duncan, the Liberian, who introduced EVD to the United States and then died on October 8.

With the recovery of Vinson, Craig Spencer, a medic who contracted the virus in Sierra Leone, is the only Ebola victim in the US now.

A five-year-old suspect was certified free after test showed that his Ebola-like symptoms were caused by a respiratory infection.

Expressing gratitude to God over her discharge, Vinson appealed that the world reaches out to the West African countries currently under the scourge of the epidemic.

“I’m so grateful to be well. First and foremost, I want to thank God,” she said at a news conference on Tuesday.

“I sincerely believe that with God all things are possible.”

“While this is a day for celebration and gratitude. I ask that we not lose focus on the thousands of families that continue to labour under the burden of this disease in West Africa.”

Vinson is the fourth patient to be successfully treated for Ebola at Emory’s hospital.

Nancy Writebol, Kent Brantley – two American aid workers who contracted the virus in Liberia and Nina Pharm, Vinson’s colleague at Dallas, were all treated in the hospital.