A US doctor based in New York who recently returned from treating
Ebola patients in Guinea has become the first person in the city to test
positive for Ebola. 33 year old Dr. Craig Allen Spencer (pictured
above) had been working with Doctors Without Borders in Guinea, and
returned to NYC on October 17th. He tested positive to the virus the
Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan New York yesterday October 23rd.
He and three other people he had contact with in recent days,
including his girlfriend have been placed in isolation at the Bellevue
hospital. He’s officially the 4th person to test positive on American
soil.
Many are alarmed at this new case due to the population of the city
but the New York mayor while confirming the recent case said New Yorkers
have nothing to fear
“We want to state at the outset, there is
no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed. Ebola is a very hard disease to
contract.” Mayor Bill de Blasio said
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