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10-06-2014, 10:17 AM
Was the camera literally in someone's face? This reeks of government dishonesty. A camerman doesn't normally come into contact with "bodily fluids" while filming. Even an NBC one. Somebody's lying to us about how this disease is contracted.
This now makes the fifth US citizen that has come down with Ebola thus far...that we currently know of. Any bets on how many more US citizens will get it by Christmas...at this rate?
Santa Obama is planning more Xmas surprises for Americans, no doubt.
American journalist with Ebola arrives in Nebraska
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) —
A plane carrying an American photojournalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia landed Monday in Nebraska, where he will undergo treatment for the deadly disease.
The specially equipped plane transporting Ashoka Mukpo landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha at around 7:30 a.m. Monday. An ambulance was waiting to take him to the Nebraska Medical Center's specialized isolation unit, which is about a 20-minute ride from the airport.
Mukpo was working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC News when he became ill last week.
He is the fifth American to return to the United States for treatment since the start of the latest Ebola outbreak, which the World Health Organization estimates has killed more than 3,400 people. Meanwhile, a Liberian man with Ebola who started showing symptoms while visiting the U.S. is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital.
The Nebraska hospital's biocontainment unit was created in 2005 specifically to handle this kind of illness, Dr. Phil Smith, who oversees the unit, said in a news release Friday.
Mukpo's father, Dr. Mitchell Levy, told NBC Sunday that his son was "counting the minutes" until he could leave Liberia, but that he was not feeling that ill Sunday. Levy said the family was travelling from Rhode Island to Nebraska.
Doctors at the isolation unit — the largest of four nationwide — will evaluate Mukpo before determining how to treat him. They said they will apply the lessons learned while treating American aid worker Rick Sacra, who was allowed to return home to Massachusetts after three weeks, on Sept. 25.
Sacra received an experimental Tekmira Pharmaceuticals drug called TKM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/american-journalist-with-ebola-arrives-in-nebraska/ar-BB7Pgdj
Another source for this story...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-american-cameraman-covering-epidemic-in-liberia-contracts-the-disease-9771646.html
This now makes the fifth US citizen that has come down with Ebola thus far...that we currently know of. Any bets on how many more US citizens will get it by Christmas...at this rate?
Santa Obama is planning more Xmas surprises for Americans, no doubt.
American journalist with Ebola arrives in Nebraska
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) —
A plane carrying an American photojournalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia landed Monday in Nebraska, where he will undergo treatment for the deadly disease.
The specially equipped plane transporting Ashoka Mukpo landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha at around 7:30 a.m. Monday. An ambulance was waiting to take him to the Nebraska Medical Center's specialized isolation unit, which is about a 20-minute ride from the airport.
Mukpo was working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC News when he became ill last week.
He is the fifth American to return to the United States for treatment since the start of the latest Ebola outbreak, which the World Health Organization estimates has killed more than 3,400 people. Meanwhile, a Liberian man with Ebola who started showing symptoms while visiting the U.S. is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital.
The Nebraska hospital's biocontainment unit was created in 2005 specifically to handle this kind of illness, Dr. Phil Smith, who oversees the unit, said in a news release Friday.
Mukpo's father, Dr. Mitchell Levy, told NBC Sunday that his son was "counting the minutes" until he could leave Liberia, but that he was not feeling that ill Sunday. Levy said the family was travelling from Rhode Island to Nebraska.
Doctors at the isolation unit — the largest of four nationwide — will evaluate Mukpo before determining how to treat him. They said they will apply the lessons learned while treating American aid worker Rick Sacra, who was allowed to return home to Massachusetts after three weeks, on Sept. 25.
Sacra received an experimental Tekmira Pharmaceuticals drug called TKM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/american-journalist-with-ebola-arrives-in-nebraska/ar-BB7Pgdj
Another source for this story...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-american-cameraman-covering-epidemic-in-liberia-contracts-the-disease-9771646.html