New York: A New York physician who had recently traveled to ravaged West African country of Guinea-Ebola has tested positive for the disease, officials have said New York.
Dr. Craig Spencer, who worked for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), came down with a fever on Thursday.
He is the first diagnosed case of Ebola in New York, the largest city in the US ..
More than 4,800 people have died of Ebola - especially in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone - since March.
Dr. Spencer fell ill with fever and diarrhea on Thursday and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in New York, where he was immediately placed in isolation, officials said.
Health Department officials were deployed in the city in an effort to track their contacts and identify anyone at risk of contracting the disease by Dr. Spencer.
Ebola patients are infectious only if they have symptoms, and the disease is only transmitted through body fluids, experts say.
Dr. Spencer is the fourth person to be diagnosed with the disease in the US ..
The first was in Ebola in his native Liberia and traveled to Dallas, Texas, before symptoms set. He died on October 8.
Two nurses who attended him in Dallas later came down with the disease and are recovering in the hospital.
Vaccine research
Meanwhile, on Thursday the West African country of Mali confirmed its first case of Ebola - a two-year-old has just returned from Guinea.
The girl's mother died in Guinea a few weeks ago and then the child was taken by relatives to Mali, Reuters quoted a health ministry official as saying.
Mali is now the sixth country in West Africa to be affected by the latest outbreak of Ebola - though Senegal and Nigeria have been declared free of the virus by the WHO.
Moreover, the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified at least two experimental vaccines that you think may be promising.
At a meeting in Geneva, the health agency said UN wanted proof of vaccinations to be completed in late December.
WHO says 443 healthcare workers have contracted Ebola, of which 244 have died.
