WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. freelance cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia has been declared free of the virus, the U.S. hospital where he is being treated said Tuesday.
A blood test, confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, showed that 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo no longer has the deadly virus in his body, the Nebraska Medical Center said.
Mukpo will be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday morning.
"Recovering from Ebola is a truly humbling feeling," Mukpo said in a hospital statement, adding that "too many are not as fortunate and lucky as I've been. I'm very happy to be alive."
Mukpo was flown from Liberia to the Nebraska Medical Center on Oct. 6. He is the second patient to be successfully treated for Ebola at the hospital, and the fifth treated in the United States to fully recover. All the five patients contracted the virus in West Africa and were then brought back for treatment.
Only Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, died of the virus. Two nurses who were infected while caring for Duncan are still being treated.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health said Tuesday the clinical status of Nina Pham, one of the two nurses infected, has been upgraded from fair to good, but provided no other information.
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