The second patient treated for Ebola at the UNMC in Omaha has been released after testing negative for the virus

NBC News videographer Ashoka Mukpo on assignment

The second patient treated for an Ebola at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Biocontainment Unit in Omaha has been released after testing negative for the virus in two consecutive blood tests over 24 hours.

NBC News cameraman and Ebola survivor Ashoka Mukpo ready to leave
UNMC to go home after a two-week ordeal recovering from the Ebola virus

Ashoka Mukpo was working as a free-lance videographer for NBC News in Liberia when he contracted the deadly Ebola virus earlier this month. After his diagnosis, Mukpo was transported via jet to UNMC's Biocontainment Unit for quarantine and treatment. 

He was released Wednesday afternoon after about two weeks of treatment at the hospital’s Level-4 Biocontainment Unit.

Mukpo bounced back quicker and was in the hospital five fewer days than Dr. Richard Sacra, the first U.S. Ebola patient to be treated at UNMC.

Mukpo received the same basic treatment as Sacra, but was able to take an experimental drug against Ebola in pill form, where as Sacra needed an IV. There still is no cure to the deadly Ebola virus, which can have a mortality rate of up to 90 percent in those infected who are left untreated.

At a news conference, Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of UNMC's Biocontainment Unit, who treated both men’s treatment, said with each case treated at UNMC, the medical community gains valuable insight and information about how to deal with the deadly Ebola virus.