New York – New York City To Check Daily With People Returning From West Africa

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    New York City Health department official Javier Lopez is swarmed by media outside the bar and bowling venue "The Gutter", which was visited by Craig Spencer, a doctor who tested positive for Ebola on Thursday, in the Brooklyn borough of New York October 24, 2014. ReutersNew York – – New York City’s health department will actively monitor anyone who arrives in the city from one of the three West African countries affected by Ebola, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference on Friday.

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    He said health officials would make daily checks on those people, typically by telephone, for 21 days after their return to make sure they are not displaying Ebola symptoms, in keeping with new protocols by the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention.

    Health officials enter the home of Dr. Craig Spencer, who has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus in New York City, New York, USA 24 October 2014. Dr. Spencer, volunteer with Doctors Without Borders and who had recently returned from Guinea, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital in New York on 23 October 2014, with a high fever and showing symptoms that he had not shown the night before. New York Health officials are urging residents to be calm and to not be alarmed.  EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT


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