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NYC Health Official: Ebola System Worked

By    |   Friday, 24 October 2014 12:11 PM EDT

New York City's health system worked when presented with the city's first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Mary Travis Bassett, commissioner of New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"Since the end of July, we've been working very hard to ensure that we had all the systems in place. And, yesterday all of those systems were tested, and all of them worked," Bassett said Friday.

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Dr. Craig Spencer, a physician who had treated Ebola patients in Guinea, was admitted to New York's Bellevue Hospital on Thursday with symptoms of the disease. Bassett said Spencer was "completely well" when he returned to the United States from West Africa a week ago.

Since his return, Spencer rode the subway, took a taxi, and went to a bowling alley, raising concerns that he might have spread the disease to others. When people who have Ebola are well, Bassett stressed they were "not contagious to others," adding that when Spencer returned to the U.S., "he did all the right things."

"He monitored his temperature twice a day," she said. "He followed every rule, and he called for help."

Spencer arrived at the hospital with a temperature of 100.3, and not 103, as had been earlier reported, Bassett said, adding that his fiancé and two friends "have been served with quarantine orders" for a 21-day period.

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New York City's health system worked when presented with the city's first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Mary Travis Bassett, commissioner of New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
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