The second Dallas nurse who became infected with Ebola while caring for a Liberian man — the first diagnosed case of the disease in the United States — has recovered and will be released Tuesday from the hospital.
Amber Vinson, 29, has been undergoing treatment at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, which has successfully treated several Ebola patients already, AP reported.
Vinson and fellow nurse Nina Pham became infected with the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died on Oct. 8.
Pham was released Oct. 24 from a National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda, Md. The Atlanta and Bethesda hospitals are among four U.S. hospitals with advanced biocontainment facilities designed to treat highly infectious diseases like Ebola.
It's not clear how either nurse became infected with the virus that has been wreaking havoc in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since the spring.
Vinson's case made headlines after it was revealed she flew from Texas to Ohio and back in mid-October to prepare for her wedding before she was diagnosed with Ebola. Officials have been monitoring 164 people in Ohio who were thought to have had some level of contact with her, the AP reported.