NBC Cameraman with Ebola Spent Years Helping in Liberia
NBC Cameraman with Ebola Spent Years Helping in Liberia – An American cameraman freelancing for NBC news has contracted Ebola in Liberia and is being flown back to the US for treatment.
NBC says that the 33-year-old cameraman, Ashoka Mukpo, started feeling the Ebola symptoms on Wednesday and was diagnosed with the virus Thursday, two days after being hired. He had been covering Ebola on various projects in Liberia for about three years. Mukpo was on assignment with the networks’ chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, and other NBC crew members in Monrovia, Liberia.
Dr. Snyderman said that the rest of the crew is feeling well and not showing symptoms. Snyderman also noted that Mukpo bagan showing symptoms just a day after being hired and believed that his exposure to the virus had occurred before his NBC assignment.
An NBC representative says the network isn’t taking any chances and “in an abundance of caution, we will fly them back on a private charter flight and then they will place themselves under quarantine for 21 days in the US.”
Mukpo is the fifth American and first non-medical worker to be diagnosed Ebola while in West Africa ….
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