Two US medical missionaries who were infected with ebola while working in the West African nation of Liberia have left hospital.
Dr Kent Brantly hugged the doctors who cared for him during a press conference, where it emerged that 59-year-old Nancy Writebol was discharged on Tuesday.
"Today is a miraculous day," Dr Kent Brantly, 33, told journalists at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
"I'm thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family."
Dr Bruce Ribner, medical director of the hospital's infectious disease unit, said neither patient posed a public health threat.
Nancy Writebol left hospital still feeling weak, said her husband "After a rigorous course of treatment and thorough testing," he told the news conference, "we've determined... that Dr Brantly has recovered from the ebola virus infection and that he can return to his family, his community and his life, without public health concerns."
Dr Ribner paid tribute to both patients' "spirit and strength".
Ms Writebol's husband said she left hospital, still feeling weak, to recuperate at an undisclosed location.
Emory University Hospital is home to one of four US biocontainment units The patients were given a clean bill of health based on blood and urine samples and other infectious disease tests, hospital officials said.
Franklin Graham, president of the Samaritan's Purse charity, earlier spoke of the aid group's relief at the recovery of its employee, Dr Brantly.
Both Americans were flown out of Liberia this month after contracting the disease.
They spent nearly three weeks in the Atlanta hospital's isolation unit.
Dr Brantly and Ms Writebol received an experimental treatment called Zmapp, though it is not clear whether the drug aided their recovery.
Dr Ribner said of Zmapp: "Frankly, we do not know whether it helped them, whether it made no difference or whether it theoretically delayed their recovery."
World Health Organization (WHO) officials visited two hospitals in Liberia on Thursday where authorities have sealed off entire neighbourhoods to try to stop the spread of the disease.
A nationwide curfew was brought in after clashes between protesters and security forces in the West Point area of Monrovia, which residents have been prevented from leaving.
The ebola outbreak has killed at least 1,350 people across Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria in western Africa.
It is only spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of those infected with the virus who are experiencing symptoms.
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