New York Doctor Tests Positive For Ebola

A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the disease, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The doctor, identified as Craig Spencer, was working for the humanitarian organisation in Guinea, one of three West African nations hardest hit by the Ebola virus.  Spencer, 33, was rushed by ambulance to Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital, a designated Ebola centre, after reporting he had a 39.4-Celsius (103-degrees Fahrenheit) fever and diarrhoea, city officials said. “We can safely say that it is a very brief period of time that the patient has had symptoms,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news conference earlier in the day. A photo posted on Facebook of Craig Spencer in protective clothing in Guinea, where he treated Ebola patients for the humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders. De Blasio said Spencer had described in great detail where he was in the last few days and with whom he had contact. Spencer had not been back to his hospital job or seen patients since returning from West Africa last Friday, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center said on Thursday. But city officials say he had visited a city park, had a meal at a restaurant, been to a Brooklyn bowling alley, taken at least three subway trains and been for a 3-mile run since his return