Hospital: American Video Journalist Free of Ebola
Hospital: American video journalist free of Ebola – An Omaha hospital says an American video journalist is free of Ebola and will be released soon.
The Nebraska Medical Center said Tuesday afternoon that Ashoka Mukpo’s blood tested negative for the virus. The test was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He will be allowed to leave a biocontainment unit on Wednesday.
Mukpo said in a statement that recovering from Ebola “is a truly humbling feeling.”
He contracted Ebola while working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC and other media outlets. He had tweeted that he’s still not sure exactly how he caught the virus, but that he doesn’t regret returning to Liberia in September to “help raise the alarm.”
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