– ‘Happy to be alive’ –
Mukpo, who was working for NBC News in Monrovia, Liberia when he fell ill, will go home from the hospital on Wednesday.
In a statement, the 33-year-old American said he was humbled by his recovery.
“Too many are not as fortunate and lucky as I’ve been. I’m very happy to be alive.”
Eight people including Mukpo have or are being treated for Ebola in the United States, one of whom, a man from Liberia, has died.
Two nurses, infected while treating the Liberian man, remain hospitalized, but the National Institutes of Health said one, Nina Pham, is faring better, with her status “upgraded from fair to good.”
Emory Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, which is treating the second nurse, Amber Vinson so far has not given an update on her condition.
In Spain, the nurse who was the first person to catch Ebola outside Africa has also been cured, doctors said Tuesday.
Teresa Romero, 44, was one of the nursing staff at the Carlos III hospital who treated two elderly Spanish missionaries who caught the disease in Africa and died in Madrid in August and September.
And in Liberia, Medecin Sans Frontiers (MSF-Doctors Without Borders) said 18-year-old Kollie James, was, “out of all the patients cared for in MSF’s projects in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, … the one thousandth survivor.”
James’s father Alexander, who worked as a health officer for MSF, said he had lost his wife, two daughters and a brother to the killer disease.
“Of course, I am so happy to have Kollie still, but it’s hard not to think of all those who are no longer with us,” he said.
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