By Sky News US Team
The US nurse diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital has said she "feels fortunate and blessed to be standing here today", as she was declared free of the virus.
Nina Pham, who was released on Friday from a federal hospital near Washington DC, said she is eager to go home and be reunited with her dog, Bentley, which is still in quarantine.
Her discharge comes as New York authorities seek to quell fears among the city's 8.4 million residents after a doctor there tested positive for Ebola.
Ms Pham, 26, arrived last week at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
She thanked the healthcare team and fellow Ebola survivor Dr Kent Brantly, who became infected in Liberia, for donating plasma to her.
Ms Pham, who is due to meet President Barack Obama imminently, did not take any experimental drugs, officials said.
She was flown to the Maryland facility from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
Her colleague, Amber Vinson, no longer has the virus in her blood, Emory Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, said on Friday.
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Gallery: Craig Spencer: A Timeline In Images
On 12 October Doctor Craig Spencer ends his work in Guinea. Pic: Facebook.
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He arrives at New York' John F Kennedy International Airport, via Brussels, on 17 October
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On 22 October Dr Spencer travels on the A and L subway lines, according to the New York Times
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That night he goes bowling with friends to the Gutter in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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On 23 October he develops ebola symptoms in the morning and is taken to hospital by ambulance. Pic: New York Post
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He is kept at an isolation ward at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital
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His apartment in Harlem is cordoned off, two of his friends and his fiancee are quarantined
Both became infected with Ebola while treating a Liberian man who died in Dallas of the virus on 8 October.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said there was "no reason for New Yorkers to change their daily routine in any way" amid the city's first case of Ebola.
Dr Craig Spencer was rushed to hospital with fever and gastrointestinal symptoms on Thursday, a week after returning from treating Ebola patients in Guinea with charity Doctors Without Borders.
The 33-year-old tested positive for the disease, which has killed nearly 4,900 people in West Africa, at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center.
Dr Spencer was placed in isolation in intensive care, where he was in a stable condition on Friday. His fiancee has also been quarantined.
The medic, who reported feeling sluggish from Tuesday, is the first Ebola case in the US outside Texas.
Officials in New York said he had been monitoring himself for signs of the disease and called Doctors Without Borders on Thursday when his temperature rose to 100.3 degrees (37.9C).
In the days before falling ill Dr Spencer went on a three-mile jog, was at the High Line park, rode the subway and on Wednesday night took a taxi to a Brooklyn bowling alley, which has closed as a precaution.
On Friday, dozens of journalists camped outside Dr Spencer's West Harlem apartment building, which has been sealed off.
The city's health commissioner said the probability of Dr Spencer's subway rides posing a risk was "close to nil".
Republican politicians, meanwhile, led calls for a mandatory quarantine of health workers returning from Ebola-infected areas.
Politicians also made fresh calls on Friday for the US administration to impose a travel ban from West Africa.
Four American aid workers, including three doctors, have been cured in the US of Ebola after being infected in Africa. All recovered.
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