Posted on 10/02/2014 5:33:01 PM PDT by knak
An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the United States for treatment.
The infected freelancer was hired Tuesday to be a second cameraman for NBC News Chief Medical Editor and Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Snyderman is with three other NBC News employees on assignment in Monrovia, reporting on the Ebola outbreak.
The freelancer came down with symptoms on Wednesday, feeling tired and achy. As part of a routine temperature check, he discovered he was running a slight fever. He immediately quarantined himself and sought medical advice. On Thursday morning, the 33 year-old American went to a Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) treatment center to be tested for the virus. The positive result came back just under 12 hours later.
The cameraman, who also is a writer, is the fourth American to have contracted Ebola in Liberia. He has been working in Liberia on various projects for the past three years. NBC News is withholding the cameraman’s name at the request of his family.
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I saw Nancy Snyderman interviewing the taxi driver who transported Thomas Duncan’s friend who died 8 hrs after the taxi ride.
Don’t worry everyone, pay no attention to all the reports of infection. The CDC says airborne transmission is virtually impossible.
Hurry up and get him back here! America needs more Ebola!
Remember the guy who was inside the ebola treatment facility wearing the bunny suit but no eye mask and took all those pics about 3 weeks ago or so?
Hmmmm, my spidey sense is tingling.
Journalists, if you want to go it should be a one way ticket. Can’t return for 21 days after last foray and must remain in isolation. Get ebola and forfeit your right to reenter until proof positive evidence you are clean.
Obviously this guy was bathing in someone’s bodily fluids, or washing dead bodies. That’s the only way you can catch Ebola.
Just drop him off at the NBC HQ.
Are they gonna ask him questions before he leaves and point a laser thermometer at him?
Who will fly him back? United?
I see the group "Doctors without Borders" is going under a new nom de guerre.
I remember watching that report! Could it be him?
Time for some skilled freezer to do some digging around in the archives of the internet.
That is precisely what I find so astounding.
There are enough iPhones and GoPro cameras on the continent of Africa to obtain plenty of footage without more journalists onsite.
My goodness, halt the insanity.
No more flights to/from the Ebola hotspots for any reason.
That is the most elementary step of containing a pandemic.
That’s another thing a millennial told me today. It only spreads because they wash the dead in Africa. What do funeral homes do here? Run ‘em through a car wash?
freezer = freeper, darned spell checker!
So, how many of the NBC team was he in contact with?
Nope, they've always been Medecins sans Frontieres. It was French founded.
That would not be fair. Remember that we flew two American doctors back to the US for treatment, and both survived.
The entire crew is coming back
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