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Dr. Craig Spencer Released From Bellevue After Beating Ebola

By Trevor Kapp and Aidan Gardiner  on November 11, 2014 

KIPS BAY — Dr. Craig Spencer, the first New Yorker to contract the deadly Ebola virus after a trip to West Africa, was released from BellevueTuesday morning with a clean bill of health following a 20-day quarantine, officials said.

Spencer, 33, who lives on 147th Street in Harlem, contracted the virus after an October trip to Guinea where he volunteered with Doctors Without Borders in an effort to contain the deadly epidemic.

He was declared free of the virus after receiving weeks of treatment, health officials said.

"Dr. Spencer is Ebola free and New York City is Ebola free," said Mayor Bill de Blasio, who hugged Spencer during a Tuesday morning press conference celebrating his release from the hospital.

He returned to New York on Oct. 17 and visited the Meatball Shop in Greenwich Village, The High Line, his Hamilton Heights CSA and Williamsburg bowling alley The Gutter before developing a 100.3-degree fever and being admitted to Bellevue Hospital on Oct. 23, officials said.

His fiancée, Morgan Dixon, and two friends with whom he bowled were also quarantined, officials said. 

None have shown any symptoms and the friends have been released, officials said.

It was not immediately clear if Spencer would return home where Dixon was quarantined or return to work at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he served as a fellow in emergency medicine.

City healthcare workers said they expected Ebola to affect New York and had been rigorously preparing when Spencer tested positive.

Officials tried to reassure New Yorkers that Spencer's infection would not spread while heightening security procedures in the Tri-State area.

But governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie drew fire when they forced quarantines on all airline passengers returning from West African countries who had contact with Ebola patients.

The first person quarantined, Kaci Hickox, stirred controversy when officials incorrectly thought she had a high fever and isolated her in a Newark hospital with only a portable toilet and no shower, the New York Times reported.

She was eventually released.

The quarantines were replaced with active monitoring for those who returned from affected countries.