Nurse Kaci Hickox in an isolation tent at University Hospital in Newark, N.J., where she was quarantined
A nurse being treated for Ebola will leave the hospital Tuesday after tests showed she’s virus-free, while another nurse quarantined against her will after treating patients in West Africa has returned to her home state.
Emory University Hospital spokeswoman Holly Korschun said Amber Vinson, who cared for the Liberian man who died of Ebola in the U.S. on Oct. 8, would be discharged.
Vinson, 29, was one of two nurses who became infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
The other infected nurse, Nina Pham, was released Oct. 24 from a hospital attached to the National Institutes of Health near Washington.
Meanwhile, Doctors Without Borders volunteer Kaci Hickox, has traveled to an “undisclosed location,” in her home state of Maine, according to Steve Hyman, one of her lawyers.
Hickox spent the weekend in a quarantine tent in New Jersey upon returning from West Africa despite testing negative for Ebola and having no symptoms other than a slightly elevated temperature she blamed on “inhumane” treatment at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Maine health officials announced that Hickox will be quarantined at home for 21 days after the last possible exposure to the disease under the state’s health protocols.
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