Washington, Oct 16 (IANS/EFE): The second nurse infected with Ebola in the US has been moved from Texas to the Emory University Hospital, where two Americans overcame the disease last August.

"After consultation with the health authorities and the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital (in Texas) has transferred the second worker infected with Ebola so that she receives treatment," the Texan hospital said in a statement.

Nurse Amber Joy Vinson, 29, had been admitted Tuesday night at the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital, where she contracted the disease while taking care of Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week.

Another nurse, Nina Pham, the first person infected in the US with the Ebola virus, is being treated at the same Dallas clinic.

Emory is one of the four US hospitals that have a special isolation room for highly contagious diseases.

The epidemic, which has plagued West Africa since last March, especially Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, has already caused 4,447 deaths and infected 8,914 people, according to latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO).