2nd imported case of Ebola in US. New York City doctor comes down with the disease. CNN

Dr. Craig Spencer in Guinea before contracting the virus. -CNN

Dr. Craig Spencer, who had traveled to Guinea to treat people with Ebola with Doctors Without Borders, has contracted the disease in New York. -CNN. Dr. Spencer fell ill on Wednesday night suffering from an 103 degree fever. Spencer is now in isolation in Bellevue hospital. The CDC are moving teams to New York to help treat Spencer and work on isolating his contacts. The doctor had not been placed in isolation before coming down with symptoms and had been out in public several times since returning from Africa. Although he became very ill on Wednesday night, he reported feeling sluggish as early as Monday. Bellevue hospital is one of eight that have been designated as Ebola treatment centers in New York

My Comment:

More bad news. It's disturbing to me that this man was allowed to be out in public. As a doctor treating Ebola patients, there is NO ONE at greater risk from contracting the disease. He should have been in isolation for the entire 21 day incubation period for Ebola. The fact that he wasn't makes the CDC's job harder. There are now many more people that they have to contact trace and it might be too much to handle. If he had been kept at home it would just have been his girlfriend and anyone that visited at home. He probably wasn't infectious until this week and not dangerously so until yesterday but had there been any isolation protocols in use at all the risk of a greater outbreak would have been minimized. 

And this is where Ebola gets disturbing. I am confident that the CDC will be able to minimize the risks here. And they have learned lessons from the outbreak in Dallas. But what happens when another person comes from Africa with Ebola. What if five do? Ten? What happens if someone doesn't go to a hospital? I know that there are new travel restrictions in place but with the disease out of control in West Africa and two more exported cases, one here and one in Mali, isn't it time to stop non-essential travel to and from West Africa? This isn't just a criticism of the United States, because the whole world should be trying to stop this outbreak.  

Here is hoping that Spencer recovers and there aren't any secondary infections. And that Bellevue hospital is better prepared to deal with this disease then the one in Dallas was.