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Amber Vinson's Family says that she is Ebola Free, however there's no Medical Confirmation yet

A statement released  Wednesday evening by the family Amber Vinson, one of two Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas nurses diagnosed with Ebola, says she appears to be free of the deadly disease. That was news to a spokesperson for Emory University Hospital, to which Vinson had been transferred a week ago.
 
“Amber is steadily regaining her strength and her spirits are high,” says the statement sent to media by Steven Jumper of the Washington, D.C.-based PR firm Ghost Note Agency. “We are overjoyed to announce that, as of yesterday evening, officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control are no longer able to detect virus in her body. She has also been approved for transfer from isolation. Amber remains under treatment within Emory’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit.”
 
When reached by The Dallas Morning News Wednesday evening, Emory spokesperson Janet Christenbury said that she was “not aware of that at all.” She said she would provide an update as soon possible.
Jason McDonald, spokesperson for the CDC, says he is “not aware of any test results.” He hopes to have an update very soon.
 
“Healthcare provider will determine by diagnostic whether a patient is free of Ebola virus,” he says via email. “We have criteria we ask medical staff to meet but the determination is made by medical care provider.”
Previously, Vinson’s family has not allowed Emory or the CDC to comment on Vinson’s condition.
 
“Amber and our family are ecstatic to receive this latest report on her condition,” said Vinson’s mother Debra Berry in the statement provided by the PR agency, which has been updating the media about Vinson’s condition. “We all know that further treatment will be necessary as Amber continues to regain strength, but these latest developments have truly answered prayers and bring our family one step closer to reuniting with her at home.”
 
Meanwhile, closer to home, the number of people being monitored for the Ebola virus continues to shrink.
 
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 108 people are “still being actively monitored” for the diseases, while 66 others have already been cleared. And most of those are, like Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, health-care workers at Presbyterian who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan during his two visits to the hospital.
 
“As the graph shows, the number of people at possible risk for contracting Ebola is decreasing each day,” said Dr. Lyle Peterson, the senior CDC official in Dallas, in a prepared statement. “Although we are not out of the woods yet, it is very encouraging we have not seen any other cases. This has been an incredible team effort and we are
grateful to Mayor Rawlings and Judge Jenkins for their support.”
 
Added Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, “Working together we are winning the war on Ebola, and every day we are closer to successfully accomplishing our mission.”
 
“There are still more hurdles to overcome, but we’ve reached a significant milestone in this difficult journey,” said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings in a prepared statement. “I’m grateful that these 66 brave people have completed the monitoring period, and I look forward to the day when the others finish their monitoring periods as well.”

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