NEW https://youtube/watch?v=5qk2VtrgAu4 Biological Hazard in USA on Friday, 24 October, 2014 at 04:09 (04:09 AM) UTC. *A physician who recently returned to New York from Ebola-ravaged west Africa has tested positive for the disease, officials announced. Craig Spencer, 33, a doctor who lives in the Harlem neighbourhood of the city, was taken to hospital in New York on Thursday after displaying symptoms consistent with those caused by Ebola, including a fever of 103F (39.5C). A preliminary test on Thursday confirmed that Spencer, who arrived back in New York from Guinea on 17 October, has the virus. Federal officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has sent a team to New York City to assist city and state officials in the response, will carry out a further test to confirm the result. Officials told a press conference at Bellevue hospital on Thursday that they were monitoring four people with whom Spencer had contact. His fiancee and two friends had been quarantined, while the fourth person, a taxi driver, was not considered to be at risk. Spencer took several trips on the New York subway in the past week, visited the Gutter bowling alley in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn on Wednesday night and took an Uber cab, all before he began to display symptoms, officials said. He began to feel feverish on Thursday between 10am and 11am. He contacted Doctors Without Borders, the organisation with which he had been working in Africa, which in turn contacted the New York department of health. Officials organised for him to be transported to Bellevue hospital in the city, a designated site for Ebola patients, under strictly controlled conditions. I know the word Ebola right now can spread fear just by the sound of the word, said New York state governor Andrew Cuomo at a press conference. Ebola is not an airborne illness, it is contracted when a person is extremely ill and symptomatic. Officials urged residents of New York not to panic, and drew a comparison with the response to an outbreak in Dallas, Texas, where the citys principal hospital bungled its initial contacts with an Ebola patient who later died, Thomas Duncan. I know its a frightening situation, I know when you watched it on the news and it was about Dallas it was frightening; that its here in New York is more frightening, Cuomo said. New York is a dense place, a lot of people are on top of each other. But the more facts you know, the less frightening the situation is. Spencers apartment in Harlem was cordoned off on Thursday night, and health officials were on the scene, giving out information to residents. His fiancee was being monitored in a separate quarantine ward at Bellevue hospital. A team of epidemiologists - referred to by mayor Bill de Blasio at the press conference as medical detectives - were questioning Spencers contacts and using information from his Metrocard, which would give details of his subway travel, and credit cards. Biohazard name: Ebola hemorrhagic viral fever (EVD, conf.) Biohazard level: 4/4 Hazardous Biohazard desc.: Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release. Symptoms: Status: confirmed RSOE hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_map&edis_id=BH-20141024-45750-USA https://youtube/watch?v=5qk2VtrgAu4
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:20:22 +0000
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