A
physician who recently returned to New York from Ebola-ravaged west
Africa has tested positive for the disease, officials announced.
Craig
Spencer, 33, a doctor who lives in the Harlem neighbourhood of the
city, was taken to hospital in New York on Thursday after displaying
symptoms consistent with those caused by Ebola, including a fever of
100.3F (38C) – lower than the 103F (39.5C) that was initial reported by
health officials.
A preliminary test on
Thursday confirmed that Spencer, who arrived back in New York from
Guinea on 17 October, has the virus. Federal officials at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has sent a team to New
York City to assist city and state officials in the response, will carry
out a further test to confirm the result.
Officials told a
press conference at Bellevue hospital on Thursday that they were
monitoring four people with whom Spencer had contact. His fiancée,
Morgan Dixon, and two friends had been quarantined, while the fourth
person, a taxi driver, was not considered to be at risk.
Spencer
took several trips on the New York subway in the past week, visited the
Gutter bowling alley in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn on Wednesday
night and took an Uber cab, all before he began to display symptoms,
officials said.
Credit: Jessica Glenza/Nicky Woolf/theGuardian
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