First Ebola case hits New York

A doctor who recently returned to New York from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the deadly virus Thursday, US news reports said.

The doctor, Craig Spencer, was taken to Bellevue (Bell View) Hospital and placed in isolation, The New York Times said, calling it New York’s first diagnosed case of the deadly disease.

He had been rushed by ambulance from his home in Harlem to Bellevue suffering from a 103-degree Fahrenheit (39.4 degree Celsius) fever and nausea, The New York Post reported before his case was confirmed as Ebola.

Bellevue is one of three hospitals in Manhattan and eight in the state of New York equipped to handle patients diagnosed with Ebola.