Ashoka Mukpo, the 33-year-old NBC News freelance cameraman who contracted Ebola while on assignment in Liberia on Oct. 2 and was then flown back to the U.S. for treatment, is free of the disease, he announced on Tuesday.

“Just got my results. 3 consecutive days negative. Ebola free and feeling so blessed. I fought and won, with lots of help. Amazing feeling,” he tweeted. “The knowledge that there’s no more virus in my blood is a profound relief. I’m so lucky. Wish everyone who got sick could feel this.”

Just got my results. 3 consecutive days negative. Ebola free and feeling so blessed. I fought and won, with lots of help. Amazing feeling

— ashoka (@unkyoka) October 21, 2014

The hospital confirmed Mukpo he no longer had Ebola, according to NBC Nightly News.

BREAKING: NBC News freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo has been declared Ebola free, hospital says

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 21, 2014

Ashoka’s condition had been steadily improving since Oct. 6 when he arrived at Nebraska Medical Center in stable condition.

“He’s been taking in some fluids and drinking Gatorade But everyone needs to be reminded that this is still a very serious illness we’re dealing with and no one has a lot of experience treating it,” Phil Smith, M.D., medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at The Nebraska Medical Center, said in a statement on Oct. 10.

“I’m cautiously optimistic,” said Dr. Mitchell Levy, Mukpo’s father, in the same statement. “We definitely aren’t out of the woods, but it’s nice to see even a small amount of improvement. We’re incredibly grateful to the staff treating him at The Nebraska Medical Center.”

Mukpo received a blood transfusion from Dr. Kent Brantly, who survived the disease, and was administered Brincidofovir, an “experimental antiviral medication that has been used in treating other viruses.”

On Monday, Mukpo tweeted that he didn’t regret a thing: “I don’t regret going to Liberia to cover the crisis. That country was a second home to me and I had to help raise the alarm.”

He added that he had “no idea” how he contracted the virus, calling it “something fluky.”

“Recovering from Ebola is a truly humbling feeling. Too many are not as fortunate and lucky as I’ve been. I’m very happy to be alive,” he wrote.

Recovering from Ebola is a truly humbling feeling. Too many are not as fortunate and lucky as I’ve been. I’m very happy to be alive.

— ashoka (@unkyoka) October 20, 2014

At least eight people, Mukpo included, have been treated for Ebola in the United States since the outbreak in West Africa began earlier this year. More than 100 people in the U.S. are currently being monitored or in quarantine. All of them stem from contact with the virus in Liberia or Sierra Leone, or with the index patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, who arrived in the U.S. in September and later died from Ebola.

Nearly 10,000 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in seven affected countries — Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain and the U.S. — through mid-October, the WHO estimates. On Monday, however, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that Nigeria and Senegal are officially free of the virus.

Nearly 5,000 are believed to have died in the outbreak, though experts fear that number may be much higher.

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