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Fascinating profile of Ashoka Mukpo: the NBC Ebola cameraman, reincarnated Tibetan Lama, son of a British aristocrat.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2bfe4ecce4bf49e087065d4adc919605/cameraman-ebola-has-passion-liberia
Cameraman with Ebola has passion for Liberia
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Passion for Liberia and the plight of its people drove Ashoka Mukpo to work there, first to aid relief efforts and then as a TV cameraman to tell the country's story. But Mukpo has an unusual story of his own: As an infant, he was identified as a reincarnated Tibetan lama a role he chose not to pursue.
Mukpo, 33, was diagnosed Thursday with Ebola and was being cared for at a treatment center in the capital of Monrovia. He was expected to return to the United States this weekend.
Mukpo's mother, Diana, came from an upper-class aristocratic family in Great Britain. At age 16, she left boarding school in Scotland and married Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist leader, according to an interview she gave to the magazine Shambhala Sun. She was one of several wives.
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(101,322 posts)At that link - the whole content that I see:
Ashoka (ah-SHOH'-kah) Mukpo's father, Dr. Mitchell Levy (LEE'-vee), told The Associated Press on Friday that his son is scheduled to leave the capital of Monrovia on Sunday evening and arrive at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Monday.
Levy says his son is still in the early phases of his illness and isn't expected to hit the worse, second phase, before he gets on the plane.
He says his son doesn't know how he was infected but that he was filming inside and around clinics since returning to the country in August from Rhode Island. He says his son wanted tell the world the story of what was happening there.
Levy says he believes his son will recover.