Panic and calls for calm abound after Harlem doctor diagnosed with Ebola
Ebola officially arrived in New York City on Wednesday, October 22, and has remained as a topic of impassioned debate and political drama ever since.
Harlem doctor Craig Spencer, 33 – a Doctors Without Borders volunteer who returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea on October 17 – is now in isolation and being treated at Bellevue Hospital for a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms.
Spencer’s fiancée and three other people are also being monitored, either at Bellevue or under quarantine at their homes, after having possibly come into contact with the patient’s blood or bodily fluids in the days before his symptoms arose.