(CNN) -- A nurse's release Tuesday from an Atlanta
hospital leaves a single person in the United States now battling Ebola,
though she and others -- including President Barack Obama -- stressed
the fight against the deadly virus isn't over.
"While this is a day for
celebration and gratitude, I ask that we not lose focus on the thousands
of families who continue to labor under the burden of this disease in
West Africa," said 29-year-old Amber Vinson.
About two weeks ago,
Vinson became the second nurse from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
Dallas to get the virus while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian
man who began showing Ebola symptoms after arriving in Texas and died of
it there. She and Nina Pham -- the other Dallas nurse who was
discharged from a National Institutes of Health facility in Maryland on
Friday -- are differ from the handful of other U.S. Ebola cases in the
United States because they caught the disease in America, rather than
contracting it in West Africa.
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