Ebola survivor Amber Vinson is becoming a medical pioneer. The Dallas nurse, originally from Akron, is donating her blood to XBiotech for them to make a new drug to combat one of the most deadly viruses on the planet. The deal she made with the Texas company requires that if the drug works, the company […]
Northeast Ohio native Amber Vinson was released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta Tuesday afternoon. Vinson gave a short statement during a 1 p.m. news conference. The 29-year-old contracted the Ebola virus while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas. He died on Oct. 9. Vinson then flew from Dallas […]
A second Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola is now free of the virus and will be released from the Atlanta hospital where she’s been treated, the hospital said Tuesday. Amber Vinson will make a statement at a 1 p.m. ET news conference announcing her discharge, which comes about two weeks after her diagnosis, Atlanta’s Emory […]
The Akron City Council honored Amber Vinson, the nurse who contracted Ebola while treating a patient in Dallas, at its board meeting on Monday. In a resolution unanimously passed Monday evening, the board commended “Amber Joy Vinson for her extraordinary professionalism and courage, wishing her well in her ongoing recovery; and declaring an emergency.” Vinson, […]
Photo Credit: Lawrence Vinson(EEW Magazine) Prayer changes things. When 29-year-old health worker Amber Vinson contracted the Ebola virus after caring for an infected patient, while media talked, intercessors prayed. She is now Ebola-free. The Dallas-based nurse, who is the granddaughter of a Church of God In Christ (COGIC) District Missionary, had a faith-filled support system. […]
The family of Dallas nurse Amber Vinson has released an updated statement on her condition and says doctors “are no longer able to detect virus in her body.” Vinson traveled to the Northeast Ohio area Oct. 10 to 13 before being diagnosed with Ebola Oct. 14. A source told NBC news “blood tests returned negative […]
The mother of Ebola patient Amber Vinson spoke to CNN about her daughter’s health situation and how it all came to be. “I just look forward to the day where the tears that I fight back I don’t have to fight back, because they’ll be happy tears,” Debra Berry said. On Oct. 10, […]
The family of Amber Vinson released an updated statement Sunday through their family spokesperson. In it, the family expresses gratitude for the outpouring of support for Amber, but at the same time, they are “troubled” by negative attention. The family says Amber would never knowingly expose the Ebola virus to others after caring for […]
Andrea White is busier than ever. “We definitely saw a little boom yesterday,” she said on Thursday. White has worked as a sales representative at Industrial Safety Products, a Valley View-based company that sells items such as Hazmat suits, gloves and goggles, for about a dozen years And while things pick up whenever there’s any […]
The family of Amber Vinson released its first statement to the media Thursday night. Vinson, a nurse from Dallas was diagnosed with Ebola Tuesday, just a day after flying from Cleveland to Dallas on Frontier Airlines. The statement, release through Kent State University, comes from Lawrence Vinson, Amber’s uncle and the family spokesman. The statement […]
The second Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola shouldn’t have traveled on a commercial flight due to her exposure to the virus prior to her diagnosis, said Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the CDC has now confirmed that it gave Amber Vinson permission to make a trip from […]