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New York City Ebola Case Confirmed, Patient Was Bowling In Brooklyn Just Hours Earlier (Video)

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By Josey Wales

BREAKING NEWS: Dr. Craig Spencer, after returning from a Doctor’s Without Borders visit to West Africa, has tested positive for Ebola.

Before being admitted into the hospital he was bowling at at a Brooklyn bowling alley on Wednesday night, reported the New York Times

Officials are trying to track down anyone who he came in contact with.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, along with other city officials, said at a Thursday evening press conference that preliminary tests have confirmed the first case in the city. The CDC will conduct another test to confirm the official diagnosis.

“We want to state at the outset that there is no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed,” de Blasio said.

Unless you were bowling in Brooklyn?

According to a rough timeline provided by city officials, the doctor’s symptoms developed Wednesday, prompting him to isolate himself in his apartment.

When he felt worse Thursday, he and his fiancé  made a joint call to authorities to detail his symptoms and his travels. EMTs in full Ebola gear arrived and took him to Bellevue in an ambulance surrounded by police squad cars.

 

Craig Spencer, a 33-year-old emergency room doctor, returned from Guinea more than a week ago and reported Thursday coming down with a 103-degree fever and diarrhea. He was rushed to Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital, a designated Ebola center, and was being treated in a specially built isolation ward.

The CDC has dispatched an Ebola response team to New York, and the city’s disease detectives have been tracing the doctor’s contacts to identify anyone who may be at risk.

City officials say Spencer acknowledged riding the subway and taking a cab to a Brooklyn bowling alley in the past week before he started showing symptoms.

Update:

Officials said Dr. Spencer visited locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn before he became sick.

He took the A and L trains on Wednesday to the Gutter 1 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he bowled with friends. He took an Uber taxi back to Manhattan. He also went to the

High Line 2 and may have stopped at a restaurant along the way. He rode the 1 train and went on a three-mile jog. At 11 a.m. Thursday, he reported having a 100.3-degree fever. Medical workers, wearing full protective gear, picked him up from his Harlem home

3, which was then sealed off. He was transported to Bellevue Hospital Center

4 and arrived shortly after 1 p.m. He was placed in isolation, and his fiancée was being quarantined. Officials from his employer,NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center

5, said that he had not been back to work since returning to New York from Guinea on Oct. 17.

His Harlem apartment was cordoned off, and his fiancee, who was not showing symptoms, was being watched in a quarantine ward at Bellevue. The Department of Health was on site across the street from the apartment building Thursday night, giving out information to area residents.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said proper protocols were followed every step of the way and it didn’t appear the doctor had been showing symptoms for very long.

“The patient is in good shape and has gone into a great deal of detail with our personnel as to his actions the last few days so we have a lot to work with,” de Blasio said earlier in the day. “We have a patient who has been very communicative and precise and who has only been back a very short time and has been quite clear about individuals he had close contact with.”

According to a rough timeline provided by city officials, Spencer’s symptoms developed Wednesday, prompting him to isolate himself in his apartment.

When he felt worse Thursday, he and his fiancee made a joint call to authorities to detail his symptoms and his travels. EMTs in full Ebola gear arrived and took him to Bellevue in an ambulance surrounded by police squad cars.

“As per the specific guidelines that Doctors Without Borders provides its staff on their return from Ebola assignments, the individual engaged in regular health monitoring and reported this development immediately,” the international humanitarian organization said in a statement.

As of Oct. 14, the organization said 16 staff members have been infected and nine have died.

The international ER doctor works at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. He had not seen any patients or been to the hospital since his return, the hospital said in a statement.

Spencer is a “dedicated humanitarian” who “went to an area of medical crisis to help a desperately underserved population. He is a committed and responsible physician who always puts his patients first,” it said.

Health officials say the chances of the average New Yorker contracting Ebola, which is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, are slim. Someone can’t be infected just by being near someone who’s sick with Ebola. Someone isn’t contagious unless he is sick. Symptoms are similar to malaria and cholera.

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has killed about 4,800 people. In the United States, the first person diagnosed with the disease was a Liberian man, who fell ill days after arriving in Dallas and later died, becoming the only fatality. Two nurses who treated him were infected and are hospitalized.

Four American aid workers, including three doctors, were infected while working in Africa and were transferred to the U.S. for treatment in recent months. All recovered.

 

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    • SickOfTheStupid

      Mayor Bill de Blasio said proper protocols were followed every step of the way.except for the cops throwing away their protective garments in trash cans on the street just outside this Drs apartment has they left. :evil:

    • el flaco

      This is so planned!!!!

    • Damien

      Equatorial Guinea. Where the BAD Ebola is (as compared to the ‘good’ Ebola).

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    • jsbrodhead

      Hey New York, how do YOUSE GUYS like the way BS-Barry’s administration’s handling of EBOLA NOW??

      #EBOLAwithoutBORDERS :!:

    • LAFREEDOM

      As i watched this on the news yesterday, everyone was saying that this guy was a doctor who new what he was doing and had taken precautionary steps due his previous work. I guess bowling kills virus’s.

    • Unicorn

      Bowling, sweaty hands, fingers in the bowling ball (s) and the next bowler after?

      • Kelly

        Uhhhhh, and how would you like to be the next guy who rents the bowling shoes the Doc wore?

    • iamamerican

      What the story doesn’t highlight is that he also traveled on the subway and ate at a restaurant. He should have self-quarantined just to be on the safe side. Some people can be smart enough to become a DR. but have no common sense whatsoever. If he survives, he should be arrested and thrown in jail for carrying around a weapon of mass destruction, or maybe for his stupidity.
      I’ve read a lot of comments on liberal websites with a lot of these people stating that they are from New York saying they are happy that ebola cropped up in a red state [Texas] and they hope it got rid of stupid. I’m not going to say I’m happy ebola is in New York but I will ask, How does it feel to know ebola is amongst you, what I do know is that bad karma has reared it’s ugly head and be careful what you wish for.

    • Janners

      How is the story just “minutes” old if they had been tracking it for 6 or 7 hours? LOL

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