Status of NY physician with Ebola raised to stable
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A New York doctor with Ebola, whose case triggered a national debate over mandatory quarantines for health workers returning from West Africa, was upgraded to stable condition on Saturday after nine days of treatment.
Dr Craig Spencer, 33, the only person in the United States currently being treated for Ebola, will remain in isolation, New York City’s Bellevue Hospital said in a statement. He has improved to “stable” from “serious but stable.”
Spencer was diagnosed with Ebola several days after returning to New York from Guinea where he had worked with patients infected with the disease, which is known to have killed nearly 5,000 people in West Africa.
His October 23 diagnosis, following a trip on the New York subway to eat out and go bowling with friends, spread alarm about the possible spread of the virus in the US, leading states and federal health officials to issue differing protocols for those considered at risk of developing the infection.
On a brighter note, Texas nurse Nina Pham, 26, who recovered from Ebola last week after treating a Liberian patient in a Dallas hospital, was reunited on Saturday with her dog, which had been quarantined for three weeks as a precaution.
The fate of her King Charles Spaniel, called Bentley, became a focus of public interest after officials in Madrid put down the dog of a Spanish nurse who had contracted Ebola while caring for a patient.
“After I was diagnosed with Ebola, I didn’t know what would happen to Bentley and if he would have the virus,” Pham said.
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