A man in New York is being tested for Ebola after falling ill following a trip to a West African country where the disease has been reported. The man has a high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms at the city's Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
He is being treated in strict isolation and was screened to determine the cause of his symptoms according to WABC. The hospital said in a statement: All necessary steps are being taken to ensure the safety of all patients, visitors and staff.
"We will continue to work closely with federal, state and city health officials to address and monitor this case, keep the community informed and provide the best quality care to all of our patients."
In Sierra Leone and Liberia troops have been deployed to quarantine communities hit by the virus as the death toll reaches 887 with three new cases reported in Nigeria.
With healthcare systems in the West Africa nations overrun by the epidemic, the African Development Bank said on Monday it would immediately disburse some $60 million to the three countries worst affected - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The outbreak began in February in the forests of Guinea. The toll there continues to rise, but the epicentre has since shifted to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra
Leone.
In Nigeria, where U.S. citizen Patrick Sawyer became the first person to die of the virus after arriving from Liberia in late July, the WHO reported three new cases, two of them probable and one suspected.
Nigerian authorities had said earlier on Monday that a doctor who treated Sawyer had contracted the disease. A health ministry official declined to comment on the discrepancy.
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