NEW YORK BEGINS CLEANUP AT EBOLA PATIENT'S HOME AS OFFICIALS URGE CALM (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 24, 2014, 11:31

Specialist medical teams were decontaminating the New York apartment of a doctor confirmed to have Ebola on Friday, as the city’s top officials urged a calm response to the diagnosis.

A privately contracted crew of environmental and hazardous material cleaners arrived at the apartment that Craig Spencer, 33, shared with his fiancee Morgan Dixon.

Spencer, who had worked for Doctors Without Borders in Guinea, was being treated in an isolation unit at Bellevue hospital in the city, where he was taken after displaying symptoms consistent with those caused by Ebola, including a fever of 100.3F (38C).

Officials told a press conference at Bellevue on Thursday that they were monitoring four people with whom Spencer had contact. His fiancee and two friends had been quarantined, while the fourth person, a taxi driver, was not considered to be at risk.

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