A former KPIX 5 medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, now working for NBC News, is being flown back to the U.S. from Liberia to be placed in quarantine after she and several other news crew members were recently in contact with an unidentified freelance cameraman working with them who tested positive for Ebola. As KPIX/CBS5 reports, Snyderman and the other crew members have shown no symptoms, but will be quarantined for the duration of the disease's 21-day incubation period as a precaution.

The 33-year-old cameraman's identity has been withheld at his family's request, and he is being flown to a treatment facility in the U.S. equipped to handle Ebola patients. As the New York Times reports, he had only been working with the NBC crew for one day when he fell ill on Wednesday. He was immediately quarantined and sought treatment at a Doctors Without Borders facility. The cameraman was also a writer who had lived in Liberia for the past three years working on various projects.

Snyderman spoke to Rachel Maddow via phone on Thursday and said, "The good news is this young man, our colleague, was admitted to the clinic very, very early."

As the Wall Street Journal reports, the sick man's father is a physician in Rhode Island, and NBC News is helping the family arrange for a medevac flight for him to the U.S.

Snyderman worked for KPIX in the early 1990s, after which she worked for ABC News for 15 years, and has been NBC's chief medical correspondent since 2006.

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