Craig Spencer, the New York City doctor who tested positive for the Ebola virus after returning home from Guinea where he treated some of the patients, has shown improvements in his condition, reports said.
The New York Times said, citing a statement from the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation, that Spencer's current condition was put into "stable" from "serious but stable."
However, the 33-year old doctor will still be isolated at the Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan. He was brought there last October after having a fever. Latinos Post earlier reported that Spencer quarantined himself personally after experiencing high fever and abdominal pains.
New York Times also said that Spencer will continue to be treated. Some of the treatment he has been receiving includes antiviral and blood-plasma therapies which have healed some of the Ebola patients at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
According to Reuters, Spencer, before being hospitalized, went out with some friends and even rode the Subway, alarming citizens and prompting city officials to impose stricter protocols.
Meanwhile, an unidentified woman in Oregon who was hospitalized after showing Ebola symptoms has "low risks" of having the virus, the Los Angeles Times reported. Citing the Providence Milwaukie Hospital, the patient and doctors are still waiting for the results of the test. However, some people who had made contact with her will probably be monitored. The woman reportedly went to West Africa recently.
An employee of the United Nations has contracted the disease in Sierra Leone and is now being treated in France, New York Times said in a separate report. The UN employee has not yet been identified but the report said that he was "placed in isolation under high security" and that no other Ebola cases have been recorded in France.
Another Ebola patient, Dallas nurse Nina Pham who contracted the virus while treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan has finally reunited with her dog Bentley on Saturday, CNN reported. Duncan is the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States. He died on October 8.
"It feels like Christmas literally...I just can't imagine just having my best friend back. It's an amazing feeling," Pham was quoted as saying by CNN.
"After I was diagnosed with Ebola, I didn't know what would happen to Bentley and if he would have the virus...I was frightened that I might not know what happened to my best friend," Pham was quoted by Reuters.
Pham was released from the hospital on October 24. Bentley also underwent quarantine. CNN said that the dog was tested negative for the disease after three tests.
According to the latest data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4,960 people have died from the disease. A total of 13,567 have been recorded as of October 29. The bulk of the cases came from the three West African countries -- Liberia with 2,413 deaths out of the 6,535 cases, Sierra Leone with 1,510 deaths out of the 5,338 cases, and Guinea with 1,018 deaths out of the 1,667 cases. Eight deaths were recorded in Nigeria and one in the US. One Ebola case was also recorded in Mali, Senegal, and Spain.
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