An American journalist infected with Ebola arrived in Nebraska for treatment on Monday and was greeted by his parents — who thought he was “crazy” for even wanting to go to West Africa.

NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo wore a full haz-mat suit as he was placed on a gurney and taken to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Mukpo had worked as an aid worker for two years in Liberia before telling his parents in September he was going back for the Ebola story.

“I told him I thought he was crazy,” said his dad, Dr. Mitchell Lev.

Mom Diane Mukpo added, “I begged him from a mother’s perspective, saying, ‘Please don’t go.’ ”

Hours after Mukpo’s arrival, President Obama huddled with health and security advisers to hash out plans to fight Ebola.

“We’re also going to be working on protocols to do additional passenger screening,” Obama said. “The chances of an outbreak, of an epidemic here are extraordinarily low.”

Fears of Ebola spreading heightened Monday when officials in Spain revealed that a nurse there had contracted the virus. She works at a Madrid hospital that treated Ebola patients.

It’s the first known case of the outbreak transmitted outside Africa.

In New York City, Mayor de Blasio promised that local hospitals are well prepared for Ebola.

“There’s a clear game plan in place, God forbid we have any incidents here,” de Blasio said. “And we know that if we have even a possibility of someone [having] Ebola that they’re going to be handled in a very careful and aggressive manner.”

With Wire Services