New York health officials announced Saturday the condition of the doctor suffering from Ebola has improved to "stable."
The upgrade — from "serious but stable" — was based on Dr. Craig Spencer's "clinical progress and response to treatment," according to a statement from the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Spencer, who tested positive for the virus nine days ago after returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, is still not out of the woods.
"The patient will remain in isolation and continue to receive full treatment," said the HHC, which runs the Bellevue Hospital Center where Spencer is being treated.
But the news is more hopeful than last Saturday, when the HHC said his infection had progressed, and he was suffering from abdominal symptoms.
Spencer has been receiving treatments that have been effective with Ebola patients at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and at the Nebraska Medical Center. That has included a transfusion of blood plasma donated by Ebola survivor Nancy Writebol.
Spencer's case touched off a firestorm of controversy when governors from New York and New Jersey instituted quarantine orders for travelers from West Africa after learning that Spencer had taken the subway and gone bowling the night before he tested positive for the virus.
His is the only confirmed case in either state. So far U.S. health officials have had a relatively good treatment record with the disease, which has had a 70% mortality rate worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
The only death in the United States has been that of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8 in Dallas. A nurse who treated him, Nina Pham, recovered from the disease, as did Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly, both of whom had treated Ebola victims in Africa. An NBC cameraman who contracted the disease in Liberia and flew to the United States for treatment, also survived.
The upgrade — from "serious but stable" — was based on Dr. Craig Spencer's "clinical progress and response to treatment," according to a statement from the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Spencer, who tested positive for the virus nine days ago after returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, is still not out of the woods.
"The patient will remain in isolation and continue to receive full treatment," said the HHC, which runs the Bellevue Hospital Center where Spencer is being treated.
But the news is more hopeful than last Saturday, when the HHC said his infection had progressed, and he was suffering from abdominal symptoms.
Spencer has been receiving treatments that have been effective with Ebola patients at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and at the Nebraska Medical Center. That has included a transfusion of blood plasma donated by Ebola survivor Nancy Writebol.
Spencer's case touched off a firestorm of controversy when governors from New York and New Jersey instituted quarantine orders for travelers from West Africa after learning that Spencer had taken the subway and gone bowling the night before he tested positive for the virus.
His is the only confirmed case in either state. So far U.S. health officials have had a relatively good treatment record with the disease, which has had a 70% mortality rate worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
The only death in the United States has been that of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8 in Dallas. A nurse who treated him, Nina Pham, recovered from the disease, as did Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly, both of whom had treated Ebola victims in Africa. An NBC cameraman who contracted the disease in Liberia and flew to the United States for treatment, also survived.
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