A TV news cameraman successfully treated for Ebola is free to head home to Rhode Island today. Ashoka Mukpo is the fifth patient transported from West Africa to recover at a U.S. hospital.
Two nurses remain hospitalized after catching the virus from a Liberian man who died at a Dallas hospital.
Whether here or in West Africa, Ebola comes with a stigma. That’s something many West Africans living in the U.S. are finding out.
From the Here & Now Contributors Network, KCUR’s Sylvia Maria Gross reports from Kansas City.
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