~ EBOLA COMES TO THE BIG APPLE ~

New York – Ebola may have HAS come to Harlem.

update-1UPDATE: Patient Tests Positive Patient flew on planes from Guinea to Brussels and then from Brussels back to NYC. • He lived in Harlem with his fiancée. update-1 • He went bowling last night at a trendy hipster bowling joint.  • Took an Uber ride to get there and back. • He sent his clothes out to be dry-cleaned. update-1 • TIMELINE: 10/17 Arrived at JFK Airport • 10/21 felt tired began showing symptoms.  • 10/23 had fever, alerted officials. update-1 • Four “friends” being quarantined.
Original Article – A 33-year-old doctor who recently returned from the disease-wracked West African country of Guinea was rushed Thursday to Bellevue Hospital with symptoms of the deadly disease – including a 103 degree fever.
craig spencercrowd on the sidewalk
Preliminary results of tests done on the doctor, identified by sources as Craig Spencer, are expected in the next 12 hours, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement.
Spencer, who was one of the medics working in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders, had been back for 10 days and told authorities he quarantined himself after developing nausea and a high fever, sources said.
But city health department officials were looking into reports that Spencer was at a bowling alley on Wednesday in Williamsburg, sources said.
Around noon, FDNY hazardous materials specialists sealed-off Spencer’s apartment on W. 147th St. and removed the doctor — clad in a protective suit.  (read more)
 

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