{"id":32450,"date":"2014-10-23T21:16:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=32450"},"modified":"2014-10-23T21:16:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:16:36","slug":"doctor-treated-ebola-patients-guinea-rushed-nyc-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/doctor-treated-ebola-patients-guinea-rushed-nyc-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor who treated Ebola patients in Guinea rushed to NYC hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #262626;\">A 33-year-old Doctors Without Borders physician who treated Ebola patients in Guinea and returned to New York City 10 days ago was rushed in an ambulance with police escorts from his Harlem home to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday, sources said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">Craig Spencer was suffering from Ebola-like symptoms \u2014 a 103-degree fever and nausea, sources said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">Clad in hazmat suits, FDNY hazardous materials specials sealed off his fifth-floor apartment. Cops blocked off West 147th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam after he was taken to the hospital, witness Oscar Nunez said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">\u201cEMS HAZ TAC Units transferred to Bellevue Hospital a patient who presented a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms,\u201d the Health Department wrote in a statement.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">Spencer had been working with Doctors Without Borders in Africa, treating Ebola patients in Guinea, sources said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">He\u2019s undergoing testing at Bellevue to see if he has the deadly virus.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">\u201cAfter consulting with the hospital and the CDC, DOHMH has decided to conduct a test for the Ebola virus because of this patient\u2019s recent travel history, pattern of symptoms, and past work,\u201d the Health Department said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">Test results should be available in the next 12 hours, they added.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">A team of disease detectives are now trying to identify others who may have come in contact with the doctor and could be at risk.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">\u201cThe Health Department staff has established protocols to identify, notify, and, if necessary, quarantine any contacts of Ebola cases,\u201d they said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">NEW YORK POST<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 33-year-old Doctors Without Borders physician who treated Ebola patients in Guinea and returned to New York City 10 days ago was rushed in an ambulance with police escorts from&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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