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U.S. clear of Ebola for now
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Volunteers being monitored, but patient treatments have ended
For the first time in nearly 10 weeks, no Ebola patient is being treated for the deadly disease in the United States.
America’s all-clear came Tuesday morning when Dr. Craig Spencer was declared virus-free and released from a New York City hospital.
Spencer, 33, contracted the disease while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, but didn’t become ill until he returned home late last month. He had been in isolation at Bellevue Hospital Center since he was diagnosed with the virus Oct. 23.
“My recovery from Ebola speaks to the effectiveness of the protocols in place for health staff returning from West Africa at the time of my infection,” Spencer, a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders, said in a written statement.
“I am a living example of how those protocols work, and of how early detection and isolation is critical to both surviving Ebola and ensuring that it is not transmitted to others,” he said.
While New Yorkers cheered Spencer’s discharged on Tuesday, public health officials in a number of states remain vigilant. A nurse residing in central Texas, who cared for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, is considered to be at “some risk” of exposure and has agreed to stay home during the incubation period.
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