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New York Ebola case no cause for alarm, mayor says

A Doctors Without Borders physician who is the first diagnosed Ebola case in New York City jogged along the Hudson River, rode the subway, took a cab, went bowling, visited a coffee stand at a Manhattan park and ate at a meatball shop since returning home from Guinea a week ago, authorities said Friday.

But the physician, Craig Spencer, 33, wasn’t symptomatic until Thursday when he had a 100.3-degree fever between 10 and 11 a.m., Dr. Mary Bassett, New York’s health commissioner, told reporters Friday, providing the clearest timeline of Spencer’s whereabouts before he became the fourth diagnosed Ebola case in the United States.

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