First case of Ebola detected in New York

October 24, 2014 11:30

CNN reports: A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York from West Africa has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming the first diagnosed case in the city, authorities said yesterday.

The doctor, identified as Craig Spencer, 33, came back from treating Ebola patients in Guinea October 17 and developed a fever, nausea, pain and fatigue Thursday.

He is in isolation and being treated at New York's Bellevue Hospital, one of the eight hospitals statewide that Gov Andrew Cuomo designated earlier this month as part of an Ebola preparedness plan.

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