An American Journalist who went on assignment in Liberia recovered from Ebola Wednesday and headed back home to Rhode Island.

The freelance cameraman, Ashoka Mukpo, was treated at Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment unit in an Omaha hospital after it was confirmed that he had symptoms of the virus when he returned from Liberia. He went to one of the three West African countries affected by the disease in order to freelance for a few media outlets, including NBC. Other countries include Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Mukpo said in a statement, "After enduring weeks where it was unclear whether I would survive, I'm walking out of the hospital on my own power, free from Ebola."

"I feel profoundly blessed to be alive, and in the same breath aware of the global inequalities that allowed me to be flown to an American hospital when so many Liberians die alone with minimal care."

He was the second Ebola patient to be treated at the Omaha hospital. Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, was the first patient and had also recovered.

A former Ebola patient in America, Dr. Kent Brantly, donated blood to both Mukpo and Sacra. The doctor was treated at a hospital in Atlanta after the virus infected him in Africa as he cared for patients there. Antibodies in the blood of a survivor are believed to provide a better fight against Ebola.

"He's about 20 years younger than Dr. Sacra," said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit to the Associated Press. "It might have also had something to do with the amount of virus he had in his system. But I think his age was a big factor."

The first person confirmed to be infected with Ebola in the U.S. was Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who flew to Dallas Texas. He died four days prior to the virus passing to the first nurse to contract Ebola in America, Nina Pham, who survived.