--- title: Ebola: Dallas Nurse Amber Joy Vinson Released From Emory Hospital description: "I am so thankful" canonical: https://time.com/3543985/ebola-amber-vinson-dallas-emory/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-28T17:24:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:40:35.681Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola: Dallas Nurse Amber Joy Vinson Released From Emory Hospital og:description: "I am so thankful" og:url: https://time.com/3543985/ebola-amber-vinson-dallas-emory/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola: Dallas Nurse Amber Joy Vinson Released From Emory Hospital twitter:description: "I am so thankful" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Dallas Nurse Released from Hospital After Beating Ebola > Sponsored content. 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While people rely on doctors to stop the Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, doctors rely on suits to protect them._ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 28, 2014 5:24 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 28, 2014 5:24 PM UTC A Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the U.S. was declared free of the disease Tuesday and released from the hospital. “As a nurse, and now as someone who knows what its like to be cared for in a life-threatening illness, I am so thankful,” Amber Vinson, 29, told reporters as she was discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Vinson had cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first U.S. patient, who later died. “After a rigorous course of treatment and thorough testing we have determined that Ms. Vinson has recovered from her infection with Ebola virus, and she can return to her family community and her life without any concerns,” said Dr. Bruce Ribner, the head medical director of Emory’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit. “We are pleased for Ms. Vinson’s recovery and thankful for the opportunity to apply our training, care, and experience in meeting her medical needs.” Vinson also thanked missionaries Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, who also survived Ebola, for their donations of blood plasma to herself and other patients with Ebola, an experimental treatment that might have contributed to her recovery. “Nurses are on the front lines 24 hours a day,” Ribner said. “We must not let fear get in the way of our primary mission which is caring for patients with serious disease such as Ebola virus infection.” The hospital said last week that the virus was no longer detectible in Vinson’s blood, but that she was being kept in the hospital for continued supportive care. Vinson is the fourth patient treated by Emory, which has a specialized unit for Ebola care that has been hailed as a national model. So far all four patients treated at the hospital have survived, including Brantly and Writebol. ### PHOTOS: See How a Photographer is Covering Ebola’s Deadly Spread  Members of a Liberian Red Cross burial team, under contract from the Liberian Ministry of Health, remove the body of suspected Ebola victim Lorpu David, 30, on Sept. 18, 2014, in the Gurley street community in central Monrovia, Liberia. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  Members of a Liberian Red Cross burial team, remove the body of woman, 75, a suspected Ebola victim on Sept. 18, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  A burial team collects the body of a 75-year-old woman in a neighborhood called PHP in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 18, 2014. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  A resident of the West Point neighborhood covers his nose as a burial team leaves with a body in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 17, 2014. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  Members of a burial team from the Liberian Red Cross remove the body of a man, a suspected Ebola victim, from a home in Matadi on Sept. 17, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  A member of a Liberian Red Cross burial team is disinfected, with chlorine sprayed on by a colleague, after having removed the body of a man, a suspected Ebola victim, on Sept. 6, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Reportage by Getty Images  Residents look on as the body of a man suspected of dying from Ebola lies in a busy street after it was reportedly dragged there to draw the attention of burial teams. For several days, his family had asked for the body to be picked up, to no avail. Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 15, 2014. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  Friends and relatives weep as a burial team removes the body of a 75-year-old woman. Her neighbors insisted she had died of a stroke. Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 18, 2014. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  Eric Gweah, 25, grieves as he watches members of a Red Cross burial team carry the body his father, Ofori Gweah, 62, a suspected Ebola victim, in a riverside area called Rock Spring Valley in central Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 18, 2014\. Ofori Gweah had endured Ebolaís telltale symptoms for six days, his family took him to treatment centers twice, only to be turned back. So many Ebola victims are dying at home due to a severe shortage of treatment centers in Monrovia, and many of the ill are infecting family members, neighbors and others in a ballooning circle of contagion. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  Residents discuss an Ebola awareness campaign in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 30, 2014. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  Residents of the West Point neighborhood attend church after a 10-day quarantine was lifted in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 31, 2014. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  James Dorbor, 8, suspected to have Ebola, lays on the ground as his father Edward tried to get the boy to drink coconut water. They waited for James to be admitted into the JFK Ebola treatment center on Sept. 5, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Reportage by Getty Images  Edward Dorbor reacts after believing that his son, James Dorbor, 8, had died. However, the boy survived for a few additional hours before dying at the JFK Ebola treatment center on Sept. 5, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Reportage by Getty Images  Medical staff rush into the treatment facility, carrying James Dorbor, 8, suspected of having Ebola. Since the health workers weren't wearing the appropriate protection against Ebola, they positioned James' body in a way to limit exposure to the deadly virus. Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 5, 2014. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  A relative grieves as members of a Liberian Red Cross burial team dress themselves in full protective clothing prior to removing the body of suspected Ebola victim, Ofori Gweah, 62, on Sept. 18, 2014 in central Monrovia, Liberia. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Redux  Medical staff spray down a small plastic bag containing the blood sample of Hawa Konneh, 9, a suspected Ebola victim, as she lays on the dirt wrapped in a shawl in front of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Ebola treatment center, as her mother, Masogbe, sits near to her prior to Hawa's passing away on Sept. 4, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Daniel Berehulak—The New York Times/Reportage by Getty Images  Marvin Gweah, 28, is overcome by emotion as members of a Liberian Red Cross burial team carry away the body of his father, Ofori Gweah, 62, a suspected Ebola victim, on Sept. 18, 2014 in central Monrovia, Liberia. 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