Spencer recovering. Looks like 100% cure rate continues for EBOV treated early in the US.
nydailynews.com
Bellevue Ebola patient upgraded to stable condition: officials Dr. Craig Spencer, a Doctors Without Borders physician who traveled to Guinea, is now in stable condition after being in ‘serious but stable’ condition, according to a statement from New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. His condition is a major improvement from a week ago, but he is still being quarantined and will receive full treatment.
BY CORINNE LESTCH [iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.21f7daa948263c3043bab783473c3475.en.html#_=1415122069576&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&screen_name=NYDNCorinne&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button" title="Twitter Follow Button" data-twttr-rendered="true" kwframeid="14" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10.8571424484253px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; top: 6px; overflow: hidden; width: 146px; height: 20px; background: transparent;"][/iframe]
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, November 1, 2014, 11:33 AM
Updated: Saturday, November 1, 2014, 10:18 PM
A A A
SHARE THIS URL[iframe id="bitly_copy_button" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" kwframeid="7" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14.2857141494751px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; height: 30px; width: 238px; overflow: hidden; visibility: visible; background: transparent;"][/iframe]
 LINKEDINDr. Craig Spencer of Columbia University Medical Center is now in stable condition.
The city’s first Ebola patient is on the mend.
The doctor being treated for the deadly disease at Bellevue Hospital has been upgraded to stable condition, officials said Saturday.
Dr. Craig Spencer, a 33-year-old Doctors Without Borders physician who contracted the virus while treating patients in Guinea, West Africa, will still be quarantined and monitored, authorities said.
“Based on our patient’s clinical progress and response to treatment, today HHC is updating his condition to ‘stable’ from ‘serious but stable,’” read a statement from New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
“The patient will remain in isolation and continue to receive full treatment.”
Spencer is getting treatments that have been effective in treating Ebola patients in Atlanta and at Nebraska Medical Center, according to officials.
His upgraded status is a major improvement from just a week earlier, when authorities said his condition worsened as he entered the next phase of the illness. He was treated with an experimental drug called Brincidofovir.
 Spencer was treated with Brincidofovir, an experimental drug.
The doctor remains the only confirmed case of Ebola in the Big Apple.
Spencer’s fiancée, Morgan Dixon, is still under quarantine at the couple’s W. 147th St. apartment, but she hasn’t exhibited any symptoms.
A mandatory quarantine was lifted for one of two friends of Spencer who had direct contact with the globe-trotting doctor, officials and sources said Saturday night.
“Because the individual poses no public health threat, daily movements will no longer be restricted by health officials,” a Health Department statement said. “The individual will be assessed twice each day by Health Department staff.”
News of Spencer’s illness whipped New Yorkers — and politicians — into a frenzy after he returned home on Oct. 17 and started feeling symptoms a few days later.
It surfaced that he had hit several spots in the city before developing a fever and being hospitalized on Oct. 23. He went on a 3-mile run, spent 40 minutes at the Meatball Shop in Greenwich Village, visited the High Line and went bowling at the Gutter in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the day before he was quarantined at Bellevue.
 FACEBOOKSpencer is currently a patient at Bellevue Hospital.
Spencer tested the city’s preparedness to treat Ebola after a hospital in Dallas bungled protocols to help care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the U.S. to succumb to the disease. He died on Oct. 8.
Experts say people can catch the virus only when an infected person is exhibiting symptoms. Even then, transmission requires contact with bodily fluids.
Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo and other officials assured New Yorkers that the city was ready to deal with other potential patients.
“We are as ready as one could be for this circumstance,” Cuomo has said. “What happened in Dallas was the exact opposite. Dallas was caught before they were prepared, before they knew what they were dealing with.”
With Jennifer Fermino and Heidi Evans
clestch@nydailynews.com |
