Đăng ký: VietNam News
A doctor who returned to New York City after treating Ebola victims in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, the first confirmed case in the city. The doctor named Craig Spencer, 33, came back from treating Ebola patients in Guinea on October 17, and developed a fever, nausea, pain and fatigue. Then, he was placed in isolation at New York’s Bellevue Hospital Center. There have been nine cases of Ebola seen in the United States since the beginning of August. Confirmation of the New York case came just hours after Mali reported its first confirmed case of the disease, when a two-year-old girl who had recently been in Guinea tested positive for the virus. The New York and Mali cases came after African countries pledged to send more than 1,000 health workers to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, where the World Health Organization (WHO) says the spread of the killer virus “remains of great concern.” According to the WHO, more than 9,900 people have been infected and more than 4,800 people have already died from infection, mostly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. The public health experts have said there could be 10,000 new cases a week by the end of the year if stronger measures to fight the often deadly virus are not taken./. |
