Dallas Nurse Nina Pham Now Ebola-Free, Officials Say

The first nurse diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital is free of the virus and is headed home to Texas.Nina Pham was released Friday from the National Institutes of Health near Washington.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said "multiple determinations" show that Pham if Ebola-free and she "feels well."

Speaking in front of the NIH on Friday, Pham thanked her supporters, including former Ebola patient Dr. Kent Brantly for his "selfless act of donating plasma."

Pham also asked for privacy as she prepares to home to Texas, where she says she is looking forward to reuniting with her dog, Bentley.

Pham and nurse Amber Vinson became infected with Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of the virus Oct. 8.

Officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldn't detect Ebola in Vinson as of Tuesday evening, her family said in a statement released through a media consultant. Doctors usually do two tests a day apart before saying they can't detect the virus. It's unclear how many tests Vinson has had.