ATLANTA — A Dallas nurse who was being treated for Ebola will be released from an Atlanta hospital today after tests showed she’s virus-free, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Amber Vinson, 29, would be leaving Emory University Hospital following a 1 p.m. news conference to make a statement after tests showed she’s virus-free, Emory spokeswoman Holly Korschun told The Associated Press.

Vinson worked as a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who died of Ebola at the hospital on Oct. 8.

Vinson’s family announced Oct. 22 that doctors could no longer detect the deadly virus in her body, a step toward recovery her mother described as an answered prayer.

Vinson was one of two nurses who became infected while caring for Duncan. The other infected nurse, Nina Pham, was released Oct. 24 from a hospital attached to the National Institutes of Health near Washington.

It remains unclear exactly how the nurses became infected.

Vinson attended to Duncan on Sept. 30, the day he tested positive for Ebola. At the time, Duncan’s body fluids were highly infectious if someone made contact with them. At one point, Vinson inserted a catheter into Duncan.