American Ebola victim to be evacuated from Liberia Sunday

Officials in Dallas are stepping up their efforts to contain Ebola as another American has tested positive for the deadly disease.

After what happened in Dallas with Ebola patient Thomas Duncan being sent home for a few days, exposing up to 100 people with his illness, no hospital wants to be the second one to make that same mistake. So emergency rooms across the country are now on high alert for certain symptoms and recent travel to weed out potential Ebola cases.

Hazmat and clean-up crews are rolling to the Dallas apartment where Duncan lived after he was showing Ebola symptoms. The decontamination of Duncan's apartment and wrapping of a car come long after the infected Liberian national used them.

Executives of Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas claims a computer snafu caused Duncan to be sent home when he should have been placed in isolation.

Hospitals elsewhere are taking no chances. A few potential cases of Ebola popped up Friday in Maryland, Washington D.C. and Atlanta.

But Cook County health officials told the I-Team Friday that there have been no suspicious cases here - same word now from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

In Liberia, one of the nations where the outbreak is most severe, American service members are starting to build two new treatment centers. Four thousand U.S. troops could be deployed here.

And another American with Ebola is being evacuated from Liberia.

Freelance camerman Ashoka Mukpo was working in Liberia for three years reporting on Ebola. His mother in Rhode Island says Mukpo will be back in the US on Sunday to receive further treatment.

"He was very much aware of the risks and he tried to take every precaution possible, but unfortunately, still he became sick," Diana Mukpo said. "He's a little better today, he was very nervous yesterday, of course, it's a very frightening experience."

Mukpo will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center. He is scheduled to arrive in Omaha Monday morning and will be brought to the center's biocontainment facility, built with post-9/11 funding.

Nebraska Medical Center officials say they were notified just Friday to expect that Ebola patient. It will be the second Ebola victim they have treated. Dr. Richard Sacra was infected in West Africa and came to Nebraska on Sept. 5. He survived, recovered and was released three weeks later.