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New York Doctor Tests Positive For Ebola After Working In Guinea
http://www.africaeagle.com/2014/10/new-york-doctor-tests-positive-for.html
The city of New York is treating its first Ebola patient after a doctor who was working in Guinea tested positive for the disease.
Craig Spencer, 33, who had been working with the charity Doctors Without Borders, returned more than a week ago and yesterday reported coming down with a 103 degree fever and diarrhoea.
He is being treated in an isolation ward at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital, a designated Ebola centre.
The medic’s Harlem apartment has been cordoned off and the city’s disease detectives have been tracing his contacts to identify anyone who may be at risk.
New York’s mayor Bill de Blasio urged residents not to be worried about the risk of infection.
He said: ‘We want to state at the outset that New Yorkers have no reason to be alarmed. New Yorkers who have not been exposed are not at all at risk.’
Mr De Blasio went on to say that Ebola is an ‘extremely hard disease to contract’, as it can only be transmitted through direct contact with an infected person’s blood or bodily fluids.
When Mr Spencer started feeling ill, his fiancée called authorities and explained his symptoms.
Medical professionals in full Ebola protection suits could be seen arriving at his apartment and transporting him to the hospital.
Source: UK Metro
Craig Spencer, 33, who had been working with the charity Doctors Without Borders, returned more than a week ago and yesterday reported coming down with a 103 degree fever and diarrhoea.
He is being treated in an isolation ward at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital, a designated Ebola centre.
The medic’s Harlem apartment has been cordoned off and the city’s disease detectives have been tracing his contacts to identify anyone who may be at risk.
New York’s mayor Bill de Blasio urged residents not to be worried about the risk of infection.
He said: ‘We want to state at the outset that New Yorkers have no reason to be alarmed. New Yorkers who have not been exposed are not at all at risk.’
Mr De Blasio went on to say that Ebola is an ‘extremely hard disease to contract’, as it can only be transmitted through direct contact with an infected person’s blood or bodily fluids.
When Mr Spencer started feeling ill, his fiancée called authorities and explained his symptoms.
Medical professionals in full Ebola protection suits could be seen arriving at his apartment and transporting him to the hospital.
Source: UK Metro
