The ebola patient in New York City seems to be improving: New York Ebola Patient’s Condition Improves.
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Doctors have upgraded the condition of New York City’s first Ebola patient to stable, health officials said on Saturday. The patient, Dr. Craig Spencer, who treated patients with the virus in Guinea, had been in serious but stable condition at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan, where he was brought on Oct. 23 after developing a fever. His condition was upgraded “based on our patient’s clinical progress and response to treatment,” according to a statement by the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation.
This means that of the nine ebola patients treated in the US, one has died, one is still hospitalized but seems to be recovering, and seven have recovered and been released. For some time, medical people have been saying that the high rate of fatality for ebola patients in W Africa was due at least in part to the poor levels of care they received there. Nine patients is still a very small sample size, but the experience in the US seems to suggest that with advanced treatment, the death rate from ebola will be much lower than has been reported from Africa.

Dr Spencer seems to be a very cool guy, and a highly capable physician, with a strong background in wilderness medicine. See a profile of him in Wilderness Medicine Magazine.
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