{"id":15526,"date":"2014-10-23T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=15526"},"modified":"2015-08-10T03:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T07:54:58","slug":"breaking-sickened-doctor-at-nyc-hospital-has-tested-positive-for-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-sickened-doctor-at-nyc-hospital-has-tested-positive-for-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Doctor at NYC Hospital has Tested Positive for Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first case of Ebola HAS arrived in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>A doctor in New York City is has tested positive\u00a0for Ebola, the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reported on Thursday. He was identified as Doctor Craig Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>A medical-relief group said a volunteer who fought the epidemic in West Africa reported a fever after returning to the city. Paramedics from a special unit wearing protective gear brought the patient, who returned from an Ebola-stricken country within the past three weeks, to Bellevue Hospital Center, according to a city news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a team that\u2019s readying to deploy to New York,\u201d said Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \u201cIt\u2019s composed of epidemiologists, infection control, data management, and communications officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York office of Doctors Without Borders\/Medecins Sans Frontieres, a relief group on the epidemic\u2019s front lines, said in a statement that its volunteer reported feeling ill to the organization after discovering the fever during self- monitoring. Doctors Without Borders immediately notified the city, according to a news release from Tim Shenk, a spokesman.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fsk_splitbox\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fsk_frame_splitbox\" src=\"http:\/\/api.freeskreen.com\/splitbox\/client?pid=27&amp;sid=jX0vRsErlhY5MiG&amp;confId=9&amp;maxWidth=620&amp;pos=1160.015625%3B5040#fsk_splitbox\" name=\"fsk_frame_splitbox\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPlease support organizations that are sending support or personnel to West Africa, and help combat one of the worst public health and humanitarian disasters in recent history,\u201d wrote Spencer next to a photo in which he was wearing a protective gown, face shield, eye mask and gloves.<\/p>\n<p>On LinkedIn, Spencer describes himself as a fellow in international emergency medicine at Columbia University-New York Presbyterian Hospital and has worked in that role since July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe physician is a dedicated humanitarian,\u201d the hospital said in a news release. \u201cHe has not been to work at our hospital and has not seen any patients at our hospital since his return from overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Les Roberts, an associate professor at the hospital, said in an e-mail from Sierra Leone that \u201cCraig is one of the most brilliant and delightful people I have ever had the pleasure of working with and I will hold a good thought for him as we struggle on with this outbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost 10,000 people in West Africa have been infected with Ebola and about half have died, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the CDC said anyone traveling to the U.S. from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea would be monitored for 21 days, the maximum incubation period for the virus. Travelers leaving the countries are already checked at the airport before boarding, and about 36,000 people have been screened.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has tested about 50 people for Ebola over the past few months, according to Barbara Reynolds, a spokeswoman. New York health workers are tracing all the patient\u2019s contacts, according to the city\u2019s statement. Anxiety over the virus increased sharply last month when a Liberian man brought the disease to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Bellevue, an 828-bed Midtown hospital, has been designated as one of four facilities for Ebola treatment in New York, a city of 8.4 million. It has four single-bed rooms in its infectious-disease ward to receive high-probability or confirmed cases and a laboratory to handle blood samples, according to New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Sinai Hospital and New York Presbyterian in Manhattan and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx are the other New York City facilities for patients. Four other facilities are on Long Island and in Syracuse and Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Andrew Cuomo on Oct. 16 ordered unannounced Ebola drills at college campuses and subway and mass transit areas in the state.<\/p>\n<p>While people can get sick any time between two and 21 days after exposure, most often the symptoms start eight to 10 days after encountering the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Early symptoms can be similar to those of malaria such as fever and chills. Ebola also causes headache, stomach pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. The New York patient is being tested for malaria, salmonella and stomach flu.<\/p>\n<p>During later stages of Ebola, patients can lose many liters of body fluid each day. The virus spreads through direct contact with them.<\/p>\n<p>Patients are most infectious at late stages when large quantities of the virus are present inside the body. This explains why health-care workers and relatives tending to the gravely ill are most at risk of infection.<\/p>\n<p>This most recent outbreak began in Guinea in December 2013, and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. There have been 1,540 cases in Guinea and 904 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[DEVELOPING STORY]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first case of Ebola HAS arrived in New York City. A doctor in New York City is has tested positive\u00a0for Ebola, the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0reported on Thursday. He was identified as Doctor Craig Spencer. A medical-relief group said a volunteer who fought the epidemic in West Africa reported a fever after returning to the city. 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