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The journalist diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia will be treated in Nebraska.
Ashoka Mukpo's father, Dr. Mitchell Levy, 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.
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