Amber Vinson, the 29-year-old nurse who contracted the Ebola virus while aiding Thomas Eric Duncan in a Dallas hospital, no longer has Ebola, her family said Wednesday.
Hours after Vinson's mother, Debra Berry, spoke with her daughter, the family released a statement, saying, "We are overjoyed to announce that, as of yesterday evening, officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control [and Prevention] are no longer able to detect virus in her body."
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