33 year old US doctor based in New York Dr. Craig Allen Spencer (pictured above)
who recently returned from treating Ebola
patients in Guinea has become the first person in the city to test
positive for Ebola. He 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.
He and three other people he had contact with in recent days, including
his girlfriend have been placed in isolation at the Bellevue hospital.
He's officially the 4th
person to test positive on American soil.
Many are alarmed
at this new case due to the population of the city but the New York
mayor while confirming the recent case said New Yorkers have nothing to
fear
"We want to state at the outset, there is no reason
for New Yorkers to be alarmed. Ebola is a very hard
disease to contract." Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
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ReplyDeleteWow! His such a cute/handsome doc...Abeg get well soon n come to 9ja
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