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By Sam Wroblewski WPRO.com
A Rhode Island man working as a freelance cameraman for NBC is headed back to the US for treatment after being diagnosed with Ebola.
WJAR reports that 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo was covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia when he came down with symptoms of the virus earlier this week. Mukpo will head back to the US on a private flight to a treatment center in Omaha Nebraska according to the Department of Health.
In an interview on the Today Show Friday morning, Mukpo’s father Dr. Mitchell Levy his son’s prognoses is good.
“His spirits are better today, he knows he’s going to come home, he knows he has just a couple more days. And also his symptoms are still very mild, just a mild fever; so I was very happy to hear how he is doing, he’s walking around and definitely more cheerful,” said Levy.
According to Levy, Mukpo had worked in West Africa for two years and wished to return when he heard of the Ebola crisis in Liberia.
Levy is a doctor at Rhode Island Hospital.
