Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman for NBC News who tested positive for Ebola in Liberia, was declared virus-free on Tuesday and will be leaving Nebraska Medical Center, CNN reported.
On Twitter, he announced that his bloodstream has been rid of Ebola for three consecutive days and is feeling blessed.
"I fought and won, with lots of help. Amazing feeling," he said.
Mukpo, 33, was on a team working with Dr. Nancy Snyderman, the chief medical correspondent for the network. He was in a hospital in Omaha for about two weeks, but will return to his home in Rhode Island on Wednesday. He was one of eight Americans to contract the disease, USA Today reported.
"Our staff was confident it would be able to successfully care for another patient," said Phil Smith, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center, according to USA Today. "We've learned first-hand that caring for a patient with the Ebola virus presents challenges you don't face in the regular hospital environment."
Good news was also presented to two nurses receiving treatment for the virus.
Nina Pham, a nurse in Texas who contracted Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, is now in good condition. This is a step up from being in fair condition last week.
In Spain, Teresa Romero Ramos, who treated infected patients in Madrid, is now cured of the virus as well.
The World Health Organization said that testing of an Ebola vaccine has begun. A second vaccine in Canada is in its development stage as well, with the goal of administering trials in West Africa by January.
It is not possible to contract Ebola during human trials because the vaccines do not contain enough of the virus' DNA. It has been administered to volunteers in England, the United States and Mali. Johnson and Johnson in the United States is developing a vaccine, along with GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom.
