OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — It was just a few years ago when doctors, helped three people stricken with Ebola at in the bio-containment unit at Nebraska Medicine.
Several years have now passed since the largest Ebola outbreak in history ravaged parts of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
The virus claimed more than 11,000 lives.
Journalist Ashoka Mukpo was on assignment in an Ebola zone in 2014, when he first noticed something was off.
"I worked a day in the field. I think I was shooting with NBC that day I got back to the apartment I was staying in at the time and I felt a little bit under the weather.I had a thermometer in my mouth and the reading came out. A 99 degree fever or something like that," said Mukpo. "If you run a fever of that temperature in an Ebola zone, it's pretty obvious what was happening. So I quarantined myself."
Mukpo tested positive for Ebola and was brought back to the US for treatment at UNMC and Nebraska Medicine's bio-containment unit. Mukpo spent three weeks in the unit fighting the disease.
"They saved my life," said Mukpo.
