Relatives of the second Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while working with the team caring for Thomas Duncan gladly announced on Wednesday that she had been cleared of the disease.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Amber Vinson's mother revealed the good news about her daughter's fast recovery.

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"We are overjoyed to announce that, as of yesterday [Tuesday] evening, officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control are no longer able to detect virus in her body," Vinson's mother, Debra Berry, said in a statement.

This comes a little more than a week after Vinson was diagnosed to have Ebola on Oct. 15, following another nurse, Nina Pham, who tested positive of the disease on Oct. 8.

The family's statement expressed their relief and optimism about Vinson's recovery citing that the 29-year-old Dallas nurse began regaining her strength and is even photographed smiling, seemingly well and energetic.

Though Vinson is still being treated at Emory University Hospital's Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, her release from isolation had already been approved.

On the other hand, the CDC had not confirmed the news yet as Jason McDonald, a spokesperson from the agency, claimed that he was not aware of Vinson's recovery from the dreaded disease.

"Healthcare provider will determine by diagnostic whether a patient is free of Ebola virus. We have criteria we ask medical staff to meet but the determination is made by medical care provider," McDonald told Yahoo News.

After Vinson was diagnosed last week, fear spread across Texas and Ohio as she had been reported to have travelled via commercial plane to and from Cleveland to arrange her wedding before she had tested positive of the disease.

However, her family fended off criticisms about her trip noting that she had been allowed to travel by health officials since she then did not have a fever.

Meanwhile, some 108 people in Dallas, who are mostly hospital employees, are still being monitored for Ebola symptoms after they helped in caring for Duncan, Pham, and Vinson.

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