UPDATED: Providence Resident is 4th American with Ebola
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UPDATED: Providence Resident is 4th American with Ebola
Mukpo is being flown or has landed back in the United States for treatment (at the time of this article). He is graduate of Columbia University and London School of Economics. During the course of his career he had worked for Human Rights Watch in Africa and had worked for non-profits working in Liberia according to his bio on LinkedIn.
He contracted Ebola while working as a freelance journalist for NBC News in Liberia.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST"Freelance journalist Ashoka Mukpo, 33, is being flown privately back to the U.S. for treatment, while the network’s chief medical editor and correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman and the rest of her team are also returning and will be placed in quarantine for 21 days," reports the DailyMail.
Updated: More on Ashoka Mukpo
According to the DailyMail, Mukpo was only hired this week to be a second cameraman for Snyderman, who has been reporting on the continuing spread of the deadly virus in the country's capital Monrovia.
Mukpo's father Mitchell Levy told ABC news Mukpo "had been doing human rights work in West Africa for 'several years before returning to Liberia when the Ebola outbreak began." Levy confirmed his son had been diagnosed and said: 'Ashoka is being evacuated to the USA where he will receive the best possible treatment. The doctors are optimistic about his prognosis."
Mukpo had been posted on his Facebook page about his experience in Liberia, including the post below on Setpember 18.
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