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Omaha Steve

(99,065 posts)
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 11:14 AM Oct 2014

Nurse who had Ebola will be released from hospital

Source: AP-EXCITE

By JEFF MARTIN

ATLANTA (AP) — A Dallas nurse who flew from Texas to Ohio and back before being diagnosed with Ebola will be released from an Atlanta hospital Tuesday after tests showed she's virus-free, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Amber Vinson, 29, would be leaving Emory University Hospital after attending a 1 p.m. news conference where she would make a statement, Emory spokeswoman Holly Korschun told The Associated Press.

Vinson worked as a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who died of Ebola at the hospital on Oct. 8.

Vinson's family announced Oct. 22 that doctors could no longer detect the deadly virus in her body, a step toward recovery her mother described as an answered prayer.

FULL story at link.



FILE - This Oct. 21, 2014, file photo, provided by Amber Vinson, shows Vinson at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Vinson, a Dallas nurse who was being treated for Ebola, will attend a news conference, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, to discuss her discharge from the hospital after tests showed she's virus-free. (AP Photo/Amber Vinson, File)



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Hassin Bin Sober

(26,272 posts)
1. Great news. I'm wondering if she or the other nurse ever got seriously ill or does early treatment..
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 11:31 AM
Oct 2014

... prevent really nasty symptoms?

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
2. I think it might be the combination of early treatment and the antibodies of previous survivors
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 11:37 AM
Oct 2014

just my guess though.

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
3. I've have that question, too. Does early treatment prevent the worse
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 11:55 AM
Oct 2014

symptoms? Does it keep the viral load low?

Are they, therefore, much less infectious the entire time?

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