NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor who is New York City's first Ebola patient
is being praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing
symptoms, as officials stress that the nation's most populous city need
not be alarmed by his diagnosis.
Craig Spencer, a member of Doctors Without Borders, is being treated
in an isolation ward at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, a designated
Ebola center. He reported Thursday morning coming down with a 103-degree
fever and diarrhea. The 33-year-old recently returned to New York from
Guinea.
City health officials say Spencer's fiancee and two friends have been quarantined but show no symptoms.
Ebola is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an
infected person. Officials say even though Spencer has been traveling in
the city, New Yorkers have little chance of contracting the disease.
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