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| Dr. Craig Allen Spencer. |
On October 23, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hosted a press conference
and announced that a 33-year-old man currently kept in isolation at the
Bellevue Hospital Center had tested positive for Ebola.
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 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.
The details of this latest Ebola case in the US
Speaking at the press conference hosted by Mayor
bill de Blasio, Dr. Mary Travis Bassett, New York City public health
commissioner, explained that the 33-year-old man had completed his work in
Guinea less than two weeks before, on October 12. CONTINUE READING....
He left West Africa a couple of days later, on October 14, and finally landed at the JFK International Airport in New York City on October 17. At that time, he was not showing any Ebola symptoms.
Information shared with the public says the man started feeling ill this past Thursday. More precisely, it was sometime between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. that he became feverish. He was immediately rushed to the Bellevue Hospital and put in insolation.
Specialists say that the only people who had close contact with the unidentified 33-year-old man before he was admitted were his fiancée, two of his friends, and a cab driver. These people are now being closely monitored.
What's more, Live Science tells us that, shortly after this man was diagnosed, The Gutter bowling alley in Williamsburg that he visited before he started feeling ill was closed as a precaution.
Addressing the people who attended yesterday's press
conference, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stressed that there was no need
for people to worry. He pointed out that the Ebola virus did not spread all
that easily and that the city was well equipped to handle the situation.
“We want to state at the outset – there is no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed. Ebola is an extremely hard disease to contract. It is transmitted only through contact with an infected person’s blood or other bodily fluids – not through casual contact,” he said.
Furthermore, “New Yorkers who have not been exposed to an infected person’s bodily fluids are not at all at risk. And we want to emphasize that New York City has the world’s strongest public health system, the world’s leading medical experts, and the world’s most advanced medical equipment.”
In an attempt to prevent the spread of the virus, medical experts are now busy tracking down the people who might have come into contact with the 33-year-old man before he was hospitalized. Should any of these individuals be found to be at risk, health officials are ready to quarantine them.
“We want to state at the outset – there is no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed. Ebola is an extremely hard disease to contract. It is transmitted only through contact with an infected person’s blood or other bodily fluids – not through casual contact,” he said.
Furthermore, “New Yorkers who have not been exposed to an infected person’s bodily fluids are not at all at risk. And we want to emphasize that New York City has the world’s strongest public health system, the world’s leading medical experts, and the world’s most advanced medical equipment.”
In an attempt to prevent the spread of the virus, medical experts are now busy tracking down the people who might have come into contact with the 33-year-old man before he was hospitalized. Should any of these individuals be found to be at risk, health officials are ready to quarantine them.
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