A New Weapon Against the Measles Nurse Amber Vinson Grateful

Looking composed and happy, Texas nurse Amber Vinson—one of the first two health care workers to acquire Ebola in the U.S.—sat beside Dr. Bruce Ribner at Emory University Hospital as he announced her discharge from the Serious Communicable Disease Unit on Oct. 28.

“The team is extremely pleased with Ms. Vinson’s recovery, and we were inspired by her courageous attitude and the strong support of her family and health care colleagues in Dallas,” said Ribner, director of the unit. “As fellow members of the health care community, we greatly admire her dedication. Nurses are on the front lines 24 hours a day.”

Vinson, 29, was one of the nurses who cared for patient Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who became ill with Ebola while visiting family in Dallas and who died Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian.