U.S. cameraman with Ebola headed to Nebraska for treatment
- 10 years ago
Ashoka Mukpo, an American freelance cameraman
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Ashoka Mukpo, an American freelance cameraman working in Liberia who tested positive for Ebola will arrive in the United States on Monday (October 6) to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, his father told Reuters on Friday (October 3).
"He'll be going to Nebraska and I'm very happy about that. I've heard outstanding things from the people here at Brown, where I work. We have contacts there. So I'm just relieved he is going to a very high quality care facility," Dr Mitchell Levy, a doctor at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island said in an interview with Reuters Television.
Levy said his son called him up from Liberia on Wednesday night (October 1) and told him the news. Mukpo has been displaying the early symptoms of the disease such as fever, chills, muscle aches and weakness, but was in a cheerful mood when his father spoke to him earlier
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)
Ashoka Mukpo, an American freelance cameraman working in Liberia who tested positive for Ebola will arrive in the United States on Monday (October 6) to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, his father told Reuters on Friday (October 3).
"He'll be going to Nebraska and I'm very happy about that. I've heard outstanding things from the people here at Brown, where I work. We have contacts there. So I'm just relieved he is going to a very high quality care facility," Dr Mitchell Levy, a doctor at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island said in an interview with Reuters Television.
Levy said his son called him up from Liberia on Wednesday night (October 1) and told him the news. Mukpo has been displaying the early symptoms of the disease such as fever, chills, muscle aches and weakness, but was in a cheerful mood when his father spoke to him earlier