Freelance journalist working for NBC news becomes fourth American known to test positive for Ebola virus.
He started showing symptoms of the infection, including fever and aches, the next day he was employed by NBC News. After feeling sick Ashoka isolated himself and asked for medical advice. The Doctors Without Borders test center in the capital of Liberia, Monrovia, where the man went, confirmed he had the deadly Ebola virus disease.
The infected man has been working in Liberia for the previous three years. He has been writing about the recent Ebola outbreak for various American media.
The rest of the NBC news team will be evacuated to the United States of America on a private charter flight. They will be put under quarantine for 21 days.
Previously infected citizens of America included two aid workers – Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol – and Dr. Rick Sacra, who was working in a local hospital in Liberia. They were separately flown back to the US for treatment and they are all recovering.
The Ebola virus outbreak has already killed more than 3,000 people in five West African countries this year while over 5,800 people have been infected.
First Nigerian Ebola patient was confirmed on July, 20. He was a Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, who landed in Lagos airport from Liberia on his way to Calabar. The health workers who treated him were infected and the country qualified a total of 19 cases and 7 deaths.
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