Patient in New York City Tests Positive for Ebola
Source: New York Times
A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the Ebola virus Thursday, becoming the city’s first diagnosed case.
The doctor, Craig Spencer, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday and placed in isolation while health care workers spread out across the city to trace anyone he might have come into contact with in recent days. A further test will be conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control to confirm the initial test.
While officials have said they expected isolated cases of the disease to arrive in New York eventually, and had been preparing for this moment for months, the first case highlighted the challenges surrounding containment of the virus, especially in a crowded metropolis.
Even as the authorities worked to confirm that Mr. Spencer was infected with Ebola, it emerged that he traveled from Manhattan to Brooklyn on the subway on Wednesday night, when he went to a bowling alley and then took a taxi home.
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Thanks.
She's doing fine now but will be following up with her primary care physician, because Mom said so 
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it does look suspicious. Especially considering the safety record. 
The People that you think would know not to do --- i.e. HEALTH CARE WORKERS -- seem to not know or not care what to do at all. I.E. - Stop getting in situations of PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION while or after you treated on a one to one basis, a patient with Ebola. Amber Vinson -- ER Nurse who should've know better than to get on a darn plane and now this Doctor who thought it was a good idea to hop a BUSY NYC Subway instead of spending 21 days in "self-isolation".
If this mess spreads to the general public, Lawd help us....
Probably. The problem is these Doctors and Nurses should know better one would think. Or...maybe, just maybe they are risk taking with everyone else lives including their own.
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And the worst part, this could be in the probability of being on the side of truth, considering the CDC's prior actions in these matters.
Bowling shoes. 
President Cool.
Cher
Ebowling shoes..... 
Working out at the moment...while Trained Doctors and Nurses jump at the opportunity to hop on public transportation directly or not to far after treating patients with Ebola. 
You have a thinking error going here.
Your first error is in thinking that a highly educated person in the medical field might have common sense, and what's more (error 2), might be altruistic, which is when such a person might actually think about how their actions affect other people.
This is a far-fetched proposition, indeed.
How long have you been here on Planet Earth? Couple weeks?
I will assume so. Now, just to bring you up to date on how things work here on Planet Earth, or at least the USA, we have a profit-oriented system. This tends to attract people who are interested in $$$$$, not their fellow human beings.
I did so enjoy your line of thought, however, but it's just not the way things work in the most fiercely capitalistic and individualistic country in the world.
Cher
You do realize this doctor was exposed while volunteering his time to take care of very sick people that most of the world doesn't give a shit about.
He doesn't realize there's an additional step, and that is making sure you don't come home and spread the virus around your own city.
How hard is that to understand?
Cher
No matter how much he wanted to "hang out" on day eight post contact with Ebola Patients in West Africa....he should have STAY THE HECK HOME on Self-Isolation. Now, who knows who is infected yet. Remember, we have another 21 days to find out IF any NYCers in contact with Mr. Doctor hanging out at the Bowling Alley while taking the A, 1, L Trains and a Uber car, plus dropping his clothes off at the CLEANERS -- has really infected anyone else.
You know, to the rest of New York City's innocent residents and all....
Cher
but this press conference with NYC leaders and doctors seems to be demonstrating the big difference between the hands-on NYC approach vs. the laissez faire approach in Texas.
I'll say this again, though: if the world community had come together to contain Ebola when it first broke out months ago, none of this wouldn't even be an issue now.
But...austerity! 
The invisible hand of the market is failing us (has been for some time, actually). We need real hands working together to build up social structures that benefit everyone's quality of life, not just a few greedy fuckheads' bottom line.
Especially where it's an epidemic. Stay here and help or don't come back. This didn't have to happen. 
Cher
"They need to stay in Africa for about 21 days before departing elsewhere on public transportation."
One would think, this is not that hard to do. Either way, thank you for saying the OBVIOUS and too bad these so-called "health-care" workers can't figure this one out on their own.
Stay away from Public Transportation, PERIOD for 21 days if you are exposed to an Ebola patient!
