A New York City doctor tested
positive to Ebola after volunteering in West Africa. Right now, Health officials face the challenge of deciding how wide a net to cast for his possible contacts in the largest, most crowded city in the United States.
positive to Ebola after volunteering in West Africa. Right now, Health officials face the challenge of deciding how wide a net to cast for his possible contacts in the largest, most crowded city in the United States.
Dr Craig Spencer, an emergency doctor who was working with Doctors Without Borders in Ebola-stricken Guinea earlier this month, returned to the city last Friday. Since then, city officials say, he visited a city park, had a meal at a restaurant, visited a Brooklyn bowling alley, took at least three subway trains and went for a 4.8km run.
A New York health official involved in the case told Reuters that the focus will be on finding people who have had close contact with Spencer.
Dr Mary Travis Bassett, the city's health commissioner, said at a press conference that Spencer had only come in close contact with two friends and his fiancée, all of whom seemed fine but had now been quarantined.
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