First case of Ebola recorded in New York

A US doctor based in New York who recently returned from
treating Ebola patients in Guinea has become the first person in the
city to test positive for Ebola. 33 year old Dr. Craig Allen Spencer
(pictured above) 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.