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A New York doctor, Dr. Craig Spencer, has tested positive for the Ebola virus disease. Officials said he had travelled on the subway and gone out jogging before he started feeling unwell, BBC reports.
Dr Spencer treated Ebola patients while working for the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Guinea, and came down with a fever on Thursday, days after his return, officials say.
Dr Spencer, 33, left Guinea on 14 October, and returned to New York City on 17 October via Europe. On Tuesday he began to feel tired and developed a fever and diarrhoea on Thursday.
He immediately contacted medical services and was taken to the city's Bellevue Hospital, where he is being kept in isolation.
His fiancee and two friends have been placed into quarantine, said Dr Mary Bassett, New York's health commissioner.
He is the fourth person to be diagnosed of the disease in the United States.
#Ebola #NewYork
Dr Spencer treated Ebola patients while working for the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Guinea, and came down with a fever on Thursday, days after his return, officials say.
Dr Spencer, 33, left Guinea on 14 October, and returned to New York City on 17 October via Europe. On Tuesday he began to feel tired and developed a fever and diarrhoea on Thursday.
He immediately contacted medical services and was taken to the city's Bellevue Hospital, where he is being kept in isolation.
His fiancee and two friends have been placed into quarantine, said Dr Mary Bassett, New York's health commissioner.
He is the fourth person to be diagnosed of the disease in the United States.
#Ebola #NewYork
