Ebola Viral Disease, a disease which has claimed several lives these past few months in West Africa had its first case recorded in the United States last week when an infected Texas man who visited Liberia recently travelled back to Texas.
Another American man, Ashoja Mukpo, (Pictured Below) working for US TV station, NBC News in Liberia, has tested positive to EVD, making him the fifth American man to have contracted the disease and the first journalist known to have contracted it in west Africa.
The 33-year-old cameraman and writer started showing symptoms of the
disease on Wednesday Oct. 1st and immediately quarantined himself after
suspecting he might have contracted the disease.
He then went to the Doctors Without Borders test center in Monrovia,
Liberia where it was confirmed he had the disease. He is expected to be
evacuated from Liberia to the United States immediately for treatment.
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