Ashoka Mukpo says he was spray washing a car in which someone had died when he was splashed with water and chlorine.
ABC News reports on the American patient who arrived Monday for treatment in Nebraska. Mukpa's father, Dr. Mitchell Levy relayed the supposition over how his son contracted Ebola at a news conference Monday. He said his son has a fever and slight nausea.
Levy said that his son is “not certain” when he got the disease, but believes that he could have gotten infected by some of the spray back that came when he was using chlorine to disinfect a car.
"It was a vehicle that somebody had died in," Levy said.
Mukpo, 33, had been hired as a freelance cameraman by the NBC News crew earlier last week before testing positive for the disease on Thursday.
“He was around the [Ebola] clinic. He was filming inside the clinic,” Levy said.
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