Amber Vinson, the second Dallas, Texas, nurse to become infected with Ebola, is said to be improving after being transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, the New York Daily News has learned.

"Amber is fine," Vinson's friend, James H. Kithcart, told the newspaper. "She's in the hospital in Atlanta, and her body is processing food.

"Her mom said she's passing solid waste and has no rash."

Vinson is one of two nurses to contract Ebola while treating the first person diagnosed with the disease in the U.S., Thomas Eric Duncan of Liberia, who died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Oct. 8.

The 29-year-old nurse took a flight from Dallas to Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 10 to plan her wedding. By the time she flew back to Dallas on Oct. 13, she was already showing early symptoms of the deadly virus. She was diagnosed the next night.

Vinson was transferred to Emory hospital last Wednesday as her condition worsened.

"Her lowest point was Tuesday afternoon," Kithcart told the Daily News. "The fever really hit her hard and she had a rash from the fever. She was really miserable with her whole body aching. But she has bounced back. There have been a lot of prayers," said Kithcart

He also spoke to the patient's mother over the weekend and learned Vinson "was up and walking around in her quarantine area."

As of Tuesday health officials still don't know how Vinson and her colleague, Nina Pham, became infected with the virus while treating Duncan. Vinson has since come under fire for taking a flight with over 100 passengers back from Cleveland when she had a fever.

Her family defended her actions, saying CDC officials gave her the green light to fly because her fever was below the threshold temperature of concern, 100.4 degrees. She "proactively" admitted herself into the hospital when her fever spiked last Tuesday to 100.3 degrees.

"In no way was Amber careless prior to or after her exposure to Mr. Thomas Eric Duncan," Vinson's family said according to the Daily News.

"Suggestions that she ignored any of the physician and government-provided protocols recommended to her are patently untrue and hurtful."

Nina Pham was listed in fair condition on Monday at Maryland's National Institutes of Health.