'Ebola May Have Come to Harlem'

“Doctor who treated Ebola patients in Guinea rushed to Bellevue Hospital with fever,” the New York Daily News reports:

Ebola may have come to Harlem.

A 33-year-old doctor who recently returned from the disease-wracked West African country of Guinea was rushed Thursday to Bellevue Hospital with symptoms of the deadly disease.

Preliminary results of tests done on the doctor, identified by sources as Craig Spencer, are expected later Thursday, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement.

Spencer, who was one of the medics working in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders, had been back for 10 days and quarantined himself after developing nausea and a high fever, sources said.

“While Spencer was placed in quarantine at Bellevue, city health workers were trying to track down anybody he might have been in contact with since returning home from Africa,” the Daily News adds.

Assuming Spencer flew back from Guinea, does that include the passengers on his flight?

Update: “Ebola + New York City Media & Self-Obsession = Terrible Combination for Obama,” Ace writes:

You know, of course, that if a tornado kills eight people in Oklahoma, the New York City-based media can barely stifle its yawns, but if a taxi runs over a dog in New York City, it’s huge news for a week?

Well Ebola might have come to New York City.

In the past, the New York media might be willing to self-quarantine (pun intended) a story if they thought it aided The One. With his sinking poll numbers, and their eagerness to push the “Obama is incompetent, that’s why we need Hillary!!! to replace him in 2016” narrative, I wonder if his party’s operatives with bylines will be as eager to tamp down this one?