Nina Pham appeared outside the hospital shortly before noon on Friday at a briefing on her treatment, saying, "I feel fortunate and blessed to be standing here today."

Surrounded by family members, Pham thanked Dr. Kent Brantly "for his selfless act" of donating plasma during treatment. Brantly is the American physician who contracted Ebola while working with a nonprofit medical mission group in Liberia. He was flown to Atlanta for treatment in August and has recovered.
"I believe in the power of prayer because I know so many people all over the world have been praying for me," Pham said in a short statement as she stood at a podium, with the din of camera shutters clicking. "Although I no longer have Ebola, I know that it may be a while before I have my strength back."
President Obama was scheduled to meet with Pham in the Oval office Friday afternoon.
She asked for media to honor her privacy while she recovers in Dallas.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Alergy and Infectious Diseases, told reporters flatly, "She has no virus."
Pham, 26, was admitted to the NIH hospital on Oct. 16. She was diagnosed with Ebola earlier this month after treating Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. She was initially treated at the Dallas hospital. Her dog, Bentley, has been quarantined since she got sick, but his test results came back negative for the virus earlier this week.
Pham is one of two nurses in Dallas who became infected with Ebola while treating Duncan, who died of the disease Oct. 8. Amber Vinson's family said Wednesday that she is also free of the virus. She is being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Emory on Friday said Vinson "is making good progress in her treatment" and that tests "no longer detect virus in her blood." She remained at Emory's Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, the hopsital said, with no discharge date scheduled.