New York doctor cured of Ebola: health officials
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NEW YORK (AFP) - A New York doctor who became America's last known Ebola case has been cured of the devastating disease and will go home this week, health officials said Monday.
Craig Spencer, 33, contracted Ebola while caring for patients who were sick with the often-deadly virus in Guinea. He is due to be discharged from the hospital Tuesday.
"After a rigorous course of treatment and testing, Dr Craig Spencer -- the patient admitted and diagnosed with Ebola disease virus at HHC Bellevue Hospital Center -- has been declared free of the virus," officials said in a statement.
The statement stressed that Spencer "poses no public health risk."
Spencer was admitted to Bellevue hospital and tested positive for Ebola on October 23. He was the first person in New York to be diagnosed with the disease.
