NYC Doctor With Ebola Upgraded to Stable Condition
A New York doctor who became infected with Ebola while treating patients in Guinea has been upgraded from serious to stable condition, hospital officials said Saturday, marking progress in a case that intensified the debate over how to treat health workers returning from West Africa.
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation issued the upgrade for Dr. Craig Spencer nine days after he was brought to the hospital after reporting a fever.
The agency, which runs Bellevue Hospital Center, where Spencer has been undergoing treatment, said he will remain in isolation and receive full treatment to recover from a virus that has killed nearly 5,000 people in West Africa.
Spencer, the only confirmed Ebola patient in New York, is a 32-year-old Doctors Without Borders physician who had returned from Ebola-plagued Guinea less than a week before notifying authorities Oct. 23 that he had a fever.
The HHC has said Spencer is receiving antiviral and plasma therapies that were effective in treating Ebola patients in Atlanta and Nebraska.
City health officials also announced Saturday that they would no longer restrict the daily movements of one of the individuals who had been quarantined because of contact with Spencer, assessing the person twice a day instead.
This article appeared in print on page 4 of edition of Hamodia.
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