The Nebraska Medical Center declared freelance video journalist Ashoka Mukpo Ebola-free after he contracted the virus while working for NBC News in Liberia.

According to reports, the 33-year-old cameraman from Providence, Rhode Island will be released from Nebraska Medical Center's bio-containment unit on Wednesday.

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Mukpo arrived at the medical facility in Omaha on October 6 after he tested positive for the disease while documenting the outbreak with NBC chief medical editor and correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman in the West African country of Liberia.

The good news was confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through a blood test.

"Recovering from Ebola is a truly humbling feeling. Too many are not as fortunate and lucky as I've been. I'm very happy to be alive," the freelance journalist said via Twitter, expressing his utmost relief and hopes that other Ebola patients may be able to feel the same way too.

He also posted on Twitter that though he is not sure how he contracted the disease, he does not regret returning to the Ebola-stricken country to help in "raising the alarm" regarding the extent of the outbreak.

Mukpo, Nebraska's second Ebola patient, is among the few who received plasma transfusion, a convalescent serum, from the blood donated by Dr. Kent Brantly, another American who survived the disease.

Meanwhile, Nebraska Medical Center's bio-containment unit director Dr. Phil Smith declared that they are ready to treat other Ebola patients, citing that their experience in caring for Mukpo has lent them firsthand information about Ebola.

"Our staff was confident it would be able to successfully care for another patient. We've learned firsthand that caring for a patient with the Ebola virus presents challenges you don't face in the regular hospital environment," he stated.

In return for surviving the dreaded disease which has a 50 percent mortality rate, Mukpo revealed that he would be launching a blog that documents his experiences through the disease titled "Ebola Diaries." 

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