Ebola Today: NYC Physician Cured of Ebola Leaving Hospital Tuesday
5:00 p.m. Good news! There are no more Ebola patients in the United States.Sources are telling The New York Timesthat Dr. Craig Spencer, the New York City-based doctor who contracted Ebola after treating patients in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders, will be released from Bellevue Hospital Tuesday morning in New York City. Dr. Spencer was diagnosed with Ebola on Oct. 23 at Bellevue after 10 days of self-monitoring.
When his temperature reached 100.3 degrees, Dr. Spencer reported his symptoms immediately to Doctors Without Borders. His activities the day before his diagnosis—eating out, jogging, bowling with friends, taking the subway, riding in an Uber—set off an investigation by health officials to determine and isolate anyone who may have been at risk.
12:40 p.m. Google’s jumping in the fight. Not to be outdone by Facebook, for every dollar people donate to Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, International Rescue Committee, Partners In Health, and Save the Children, Google announced Monday they will donate $2. It’s all part of Google’s new Ebola Donate campaign on the heels of CEO Larry Page’s $25 million donation.
10:00 a.m. 21 days later… Kaci Hickox, a nurse in Maine who treated Ebola patients in West Africa and has battled mandated quarantines in New Jersey and Maine this month, is officially free of the Ebola virus.
Monday marks 21 days since Hickox’s last exposure to an Ebola patient. Hickox and her boyfriend Ted Wilbur are moving from Fort Kent to southern Maine since Wilbur is no longer enrolled at University of Maine at Fort Kent. He claims the college wouldn’t allow him on campus because of his girlfriend’s exposure to the Ebola virus.
The latest numbers:
Number of cases worldwide in the current outbreak: 13,042 (as of Nov. 5)
Number of deaths: 4,818 (as of Nov. 5)
Countries currently affected by Ebola: Mali, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States of America.
Countries where the outbreak has ended: Nigeria (Oct. 19), Senegal (Oct. 17)
And here’s your daily reminder not to panic:
The likelihood of contracting Ebola in Massachusetts remains very low, according to the state’s public health officials. You have to be in direct contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids while they are contagious (displaying symptoms of Ebola). Even if someone has been exposed, symptoms may appear in as little as two days, and in as many as 21 days, after exposure. The CDC says the average is 8 to 10 days.
Ebola symptoms:
– Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F)
– Severe headache
– Muscle pain
– Weakness
– Diarrhea
– Vomiting
– Abdominal (stomach) pain
– Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)
Need more details? Here’s an MGH physician dropping some knowledge for you.
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