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Second Texas nurse is Ebola-free

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The second Texas nurse who contracted Ebola from a patient has been declared free of the virus.

Amber Vinson is leaving Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where she has been treated since contracting the virus from Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who contracted Ebola in West Africa and later died in a Dallas hospital.

Vinson’s doctors say tests show she is now virus-free.