US Journalist with Ebola Arrives In Omaha for Treatment
US Journalist with Ebola Arrives In Omaha for Treatment – A 33-year-old American freelance journalist diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Monday after being transported from Liberia for treatment.
It is unclear how Ashoka Mukpo, who was working with an NBC news crew in Liberia, contracted Ebola, but his parents believe he may have become infected while washing the car of an Ebola victim. He is the fifth American to return to the US to receive treatment for the disease, which has left thousands dead in western Africa.
Omaha hospital officials said that Mukpo will be placed in the facility’s Biocontainment Unit for evaluation. Mukpo was diagnosed with Ebola just a couple of days after joining NBC as a cameraman. He was previously working for a nonprofit organization in Liberia for two years.
According to Mukpo’s parents, he was in good spirits, and fortunately his symptoms were not severe. Hospital officials said that this was a controlled situation as opposed to what happened in Thomas Duncan’s case in Dallas, and with the training they had received for over a decade for dealing with such situations, they said they were well-prepared to handle the case.
The Nebraska Medical Center had earlier successfully treated an American doctor, Rick Sacra, who had contracted Ebola in West Africa.
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