Doctor in NYC tests positive for Ebola

A physician with Doctors Without Borders who returned to New York City after treating Ebola victims in West Africa has tested positive for the virus.

Craig Spencer, 33, recently returned from Guinea where he was treating patients suffering from the deadly disease.

He started feeling sick Wednesday night and was taken to a hospital for treatment on Thursday.

“Today testing confirmed that a patient here in New York City had tested positive for Ebola,” said New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. “The patient is now here at Bellevue Hospital.  We want to state at the outset that there is no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed.”

“The patient is now in isolation.  The health department has a team of disease detectives who have been at work tracing all the patients contacts and we are prepared to quarantine contacts as necessary.”

As of Wednesday, Ebola has infected 9,936 people and killed 4,877 since the current outbreak began in March in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria.

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