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Howard University Hospital is taking a closer look at one of their patients and evaluation them for Ebola as a precaution. A rep for the…

One college freshman found that it really pays to have a plan because she’s earned 14 different scholarships her senior year in high school. Just…

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Facebook(NEW BEDFORD, Mass.) -- The mother of the American journalist with Ebola said that she knew exactly what was wrong with her son as soon as she heard he was sick.Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman, was just hired by NBC's crew in Monrovia earlier this week as they covered the spreading virus. He tested positive for Ebola on Thursday."My husband was on his way back from a medical conference in Barcelona, and he called me in the middle of the night and told me Ashoka was sick," his mother Diana Mukpo told ABC News affiliate WLNE-TV. "I knew immediately what that meant."The family has been coordinating with the State Department and she said that the plan is for a plane to bring him back to the United States on Sunday, though to which medical facility he will be taken still isn't clear."Of course it's nerve wracking... needing to wait two or three days before he can be back to get optimum medical care," Diana Mukpo said.She said that in her latest call with her son he reported that he was "a little better today.""He was very nervous yesterday, of course, it's a very frightening experience," she said."I think he's extraordinarily relieved that he's going to be evacuated and come back to the United States for optimum care," Diana Mukpo said.According to his mother, Ashoka Mukpo had spent two years working for a Liberian NGO before returning to the U.S. earlier this summer."He feels a tremendous commitment to the Liberian people and the Liberian culture, and when he heard about the Ebola outbreak he felt compelled to go back... much to the anxiety of his parents and family, obviously," Diana Mukpo said.Ashoka Mukpo contributed to reports for various news outlets before getting sick, but also shared emotional updates on his personal Facebook page."Man oh man I have seen some bad things in the last two weeks of my life," he wrote in one such post on Sept. 18, two weeks before testing positive for the disease. "How unpredictable and fraught with danger life can be. How in some parts of the world, basic levels of help and assistance that we take for granted completely don't exist for many people." Follow @ABCNewsRadio !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");Copyright 2014 ABC News Radio

Will Montgomery(DALLAS) -- The Ebola patient in a Texas isolation unit has become so weak that he can no longer talk to his family on the phone, his nephew told ABC News.Thomas Eric Duncan, who is from Liberia, has been confined to an isolation unit at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas since he arrived in an ambulance on Sunday.The family had said earlier in the week they spoke with Duncan by phone and prayed with him on the phone, but that is no longer possible, Duncan's nephew Joe Weeks told ABC News."At first we were able to talk to him on the phone, but now he is just too sick to speak," Weeks said.Weeks lives in Kannapolis, North Carolina, along with Duncan's sister and 87-year-old mother. The mother and sister may travel to Dallas soon, Weeks said.A cleaning crew is expected to arrive Friday at the Ivy Apartments in Dallas where Duncan had been staying when he got sick from the Ebola virus. The crew was turned away on Thursday, but are expected to be admitted Friday.The cleaning crew is tasked with disinfecting all of the surfaces that Duncan could have touched, Dallas Judge Clay Jenkins said Thursday. The man’s clothes and sheets have been “bagged,” Jenkins said. Additionally, food has been delivered to the apartment for Duncan’s relatives.Weeks is concerned that the apartment has not yet been sanitized despite having four people confined to the apartment by a judge's order until they are determined to not be infected with Ebola, which can take as long as 21 days to incubate. Among the people in the apartment are a teenage boy and woman named Louise Troh, who traveled from Liberia with Duncan.“The house that he lived in has not been cleaned or disinfected. You still have four more people in there, that lived in that house and were allowed to leave and go shopping, go do other things that normal people would do,” Weeks said.Thomas R. Frieden, the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told ABC News Friday that the Ebola diagnosis offers new challenges for authorities.“It’s the first time we’re having Ebola in this country and the challenges are real in terms of what do you do with the waste, how do you move it, how do you dispose of it and we want to make sure that everything is done correctly,” Frieden said. “I’m confident that will get sorted out today.”The initial handling of Duncan's case has been the subject of controversy. Duncan first visited the hospital last Thursday, Sept. 25, but was allowed to leave the hospital despite telling a nurse he had come from West Africa. Duncan returned to the hospital by ambulance on Sunday.The hospital said in a statement Thursday that the physician and the nurses followed protocol, but his travel history didn't automatically appear in the physician's standard workflow.Weeks also had concerns that the hospital wasn't aware that Duncan may have been infected with Ebola. Weeks said that he called the hospital to report his concerns about Duncan’s condition -- and when he didn’t get the reaction he wanted, he called officials at the CDC and the Department of Health, at which point Duncan was put in isolation.“They had him in the ER, like any other patient, and I didn’t think that was the right procedure,” Weeks said.“I don’t know how long it was going to take, but I wasn’t trying to wait to see how long it was going to take, so I pre-empted and called CDC and reported that there might be a possible Ebola case in Texas. But the hospital was not doing what it needed to do at that time,” he said.Dallas and federal health officials are tracking all the people who may have come into contact with Duncan and so far that figure is about 100 people.Duncan, who worked as a driver in Liberia, flew to Brussels on Sept. 19. He continued to Washington’s Dulles Airport, before flying to the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport on a United Airlines flight, arriving on Sept. 20.Although American Ebola patients have been treated in the United States prior to this diagnosis, they all contracted Ebola in West Africa. Ebola has killed more than 3,300 people, with nearly 7,200 cases reported since the outbreak began in March. More ABC news videos | ABC Entertainment News Follow @ABCNewsRadio !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");Copyright 2014 ABC News Radio