Federal officials: Dallas nurse free of Ebola
By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press
Oct 24, 2014 10:59 AM CDT
FILE - This 2010, file photo provided by tcu360.com, the yearbook of Texas Christian University, shows Nina Pham. Pham, the first nurse diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital, is free of the virus. The National Institutes of Health said in a statement that Pham is being...   (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first nurse diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital is free of the virus.

The National Institutes of Health says in a statement that Nina Pham is being released Friday from its hospital near Washington.

NIH spokesman John Burklow says Pham will make a brief statement during a news conference late this morning.

The 26-year-old Pham arrived last week at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She had been flown there from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

Pham is one of two nurses in Dallas who became infected with Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of the virus Oct. 8.