BREAKING NEWS: Doctor in NYC Tests Positive for Ebola Thursday 10/23/14 08:43 PM A doctor who recently traveled to West Africa is being isolated at a New York City Hospital after a preliminary Ebola test came back positive Thursday. That would make Dr. Craig Allen Spencer, 33, the fourth person to be diagnosed with the deadly virus on U.S. soil. Spencer, who was working for Doctors Without Borders, was placed in an isolation unit Thursday at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan after reporting Ebola-like symptoms. The physician told health officials that he immediately quarantined himself in his apartment when he came down with a 103-degree fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. He was then brought to Bellevue, the designated hospital for the diagnosis and treatment of Ebola patients in New York City, by workers wearing special protective gear. Law enforcement sources said Spencer recently returned from Guinea, one of the West African countries currently battling an Ebola outbreak. He traveled through Brussels, Belgium, and arrived at JFK Airport on October 17. JFK is one of the five U.S. airports where enhanced screening of passengers from Ebola-stricken countries is taking place. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at an earlier news conference that Spencer only had symptoms for a very brief period of time and only had contact with very few people. He described the patient as in good shape. Just the same, the citys Health Department has begun tracing the patients contacts, according to the hospital. Meanwhile, sources tell ABC News that New York City health authorities are looking into whether Spencer took an Uber car, which is a ride-sharing service, to a bowling alley in Brooklyn Wednesday and whether he rode the subway earlier that day. The Gutter, the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, bowling alley in question, was closed as of Thursday night. In a statement from New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center where Spencer works, they described him as a dedicated humanitarian...who went to an area of medical crisis to help a desperately under-served population.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:55:54 +0000
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