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Old 10-28-2014, 01:33 PM
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Default Amber Vinson released from Emory University Hospital today

From NBC news website:
Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014 • Updated at 1:02 PM CDT Dallas nurse Amber Vinson, the second health care worker to contract Ebola after treating Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, has recovered from the potentially deadly virus and was discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta Tuesday.

"I’m so grateful to be well and first and foremost, I want to thank God," Vinson said. "I sincerely believe that with God all things are possible."

Vinson, 29, entered the room to a round of applause and was introduced by Dr. Bruce Ribner, assistant professor of medicine and a specialist in infectious disease and internal medicine at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

In a short statement, Vinson thanked her family, doctors and caretakers, including Fort Worth Dr. Kent Brantley and missionary Nancy Writebol, both who donated plasma, while asking that "we not lose focus on the thousands of families who continue to labor under the burden of this disease in West Africa."

Vinson took no questions and asked for privacy for she and her family after they return to Texas.

"My family and I would like to thank many people whose prayers have helped sustain us. As we head back home to Texas, we are grateful and we respectfully ask for the privacy my family and I need at this time."
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