Ebola diagnosed in doctor in New York City

A physician who recently returned to New York City after caring for people in west Africa with Ebola virus disease has tested positive for the virus, city health officials said 23 October.

“We were hoping that it didn’t happen, but we were also realistic,” New York’s governor, Andrew M Cuomo, said in a news conference. “This is New York. People come through New York. People come through New York’s airports, so we can’t say this is an unexpected circumstance.”

Mary Travis Bassett, the city’s health commissioner, said that the physician, 33 year old Craig Spencer, had been working in an Ebola treatment unit with the international relief group Doctors Without Borders in Guinea until 12 October. He left the country for New York two days later, 14 October, traveling by way of Europe and arriving in the United States on 17 October through John …