New York Doctor Now Free of Ebola to Be Discharged from Hospital
New York Doctor Now Free of Ebola to Be Discharged from Hospital – A doctor’s expected hospital discharge on Tuesday after weeks of isolation treatment for Ebola was cheered by New Yorkers – from City Hall to the Harlem apartment building where he lives.
According to media reports, the release of 33-yer-old Doctor Craig Spencer, who worked with Ebola patients in Guinea and had been held at Bellevue Hospital Center since he was diagnosed with the virus on October 23rd, will mean no one in the United States is being treated for the disease.
Spencer’s diagnosis followed trips on the subway to eat out and go bowling with friends, provoking public alarm about the possible spread of the virus in the city. Neighbors who have not seen Spencer since he was hospitalized three weeks ago said they were happy to hear he may be headed home soon.
According to the World Health Organization. Ebola has killed more than 4,950 people since it broke out in West Africa earlier this year. The bulk of the cases and deaths have come in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
In North Carolina, health officials say a missionary from California was deemed to be at “some risk” for developing the disease after returning from Liberia and had been placed under a 21-day quarantine.
There has been only one Ebola death in the United States – Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted the disease in his native Liberia and died in Dallas, where he had gone to visit. Medical experts say Ebola can be transmitted only through the bodily fluid of a person who is exhibiting symptoms.
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