Contact with US Doctors Infected Ebola, 3 People Quarantined in New York

Contact with US Doctors Infected Ebola, 3 People Quarantined in New York  -  New York - New York Authority, the United States has to make sure the doctor Craig Spencer was positively infected with Ebola. Local authorities also quarantining 3 others that are known to make contact with Spencer, before she was treated.

In a press conference, as reported by Reuters on Friday (10/24/2014), New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that Spencer was in direct contact with four people before being treated in hospital.

Local health authorities, according to Cuomo, has quarantined the three of them, which are the two friends and fiance Spencer. Meanwhile, the fourth of a taxi driver, otherwise not at risk of contracting Ebola.

Spencer had a fever and symptoms of indigestion returning from Guinea, West Africa after work caring for Ebola patients humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. The 33-year-old doctor felt the first symptoms on Thursday (23/10) morning local time, when he had a fever.

Health Commissioner of New York, Mary Travis Bassett said Ebola infected patients when it starts to feel pain. According to Bassett, Spencer monitor her temperature twice a day, before he reported and taken to hospital. Now, Spencer quarantined at Bellevue Hospital.

Spencer apartment is also sealed by local authorities. Then the results of the initial examination Spencer will be sent to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be confirmed within 24 hours.

According to local health authorities, Spencer completed its work in Guinea on Oct. 12 and left the country two days later. He had a transit in Brussels, Belgium before finally arriving in the US

Spencer landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York on October 17, local time. Upon arriving at her apartment, Spencer ran as far as 4.8 km exercising then also ride several subway lines, go bowling and get to eat at a local restaurant.

"He did not experience any symptoms. He was not a fever (when out of the house)," said Bassett.

In a press conference, Mayor Bill de Blasio to convince the public that they are safe from Ebola, although none of the patients infected with the deadly virus in the same city.

"Being in the subway car the same or live near an infected person is not necessarily at risk of contracting Ebola," said de Blasio.