New York - A doctor with symptoms potentially exposed to Ebola, returning from a trip to the West African country, amid examined at a New York hospital.
The doctor, identified by local media as Craig Spencer (33), fever and indigestion, officials said New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in a statement on Thursday.
The doctor, who reportedly worked in Guinea for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), home to the United States in the past 21 days, were treated at Belleuve Hospital, said the US Department of Health.
Twenty-one days is the maximum incubation period for Ebola virus.
The results of the initial examination is expected to be obtained in the next 12 hours. (See also: WHO Ebola convinced it will not spread much)
"The possibility of the average citizen of New York attacked by Ebola very thin," said Department of Health, as quoted by Xinhua.
"Ebola is spread through direct contact with body fluids of infected people. People can not be infected just because he is near someone who is infected with Ebola," he said.
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