2nd Ebola patient arrives at Nebraska Med Center
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Bob Glissmann and Jay Withrow
Ashoka Mukpo, a 33-year-old American freelance journalist who contracted the often-deadly Ebola virus while working in Liberia, arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center at 7:53 a.m. Monday. The plane that brought him to Omaha had landed about 7:20 a.m. at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield.
Mukpo, who was wearing a full biocontainment suit, walked off the plane, sat down on a gurney and was loaded onto the ambulance at 7:37 a.m. in a remote area at Eppley, away from any public area of the airport.
The ambulance was escorted to the hospital down Dodge Street by four cruisers and six motorcycles. Omaha's police helicopter flew overhead. Mukpo was taken to the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit on the seventh floor of the hospital's University Tower.
Mukpo is the second American patient suffering from the deadly virus who will be treated at the hospital.
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JAMES R. BURNETT / THE WORLD-HERALD
Omaha, Nebraska - 10/06/2014 - Ashoka Mukpo, a 33-year-old American TV photojournalist who contracted the deadly Ebola virus while working in Liberia, arrived Omaha Monday morning. The plane that brought him to Omaha landed about 7:20 a.m. at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield. Mukpo is the second American patient suffering from the deadly virus who will be treated at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Mukpo was loaded onto the ambulance at 7:37 a.m. after walking off of the plane and was taken by ambulance from a remote location at Eppley to the Med Center.
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