Ebola Virus Outbreak In America: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio Socialize With The Public In Subway To Ease Fears Of The Disease

The ebola virus outbreak that killed thousands of people in West African has reached the United States. After recording the death of its first American victim named Thomas Eric Duncan from Dallas, ebola was then contracted by Nina Pham, a nurse who was taking care of him. Fortunately, doctors were able to clear Pham of the disease after days of being quarantined at the National Institutes of Health hospital for one week. However, fears of the ebola virus outbreak is yet to die as a doctor in New York tested positive. Reports said the new victim was identified as Dr. Craig Spencer, a Doctors Without Borders physician who jogged along the Hudson River and could have personally communicated with a number of people.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio was quick to play down fears over possible ebola virus outbreak at the Big Apple. To prove that, he himself rode in a subway on Friday.

"We are working very closely with our state and federal partners to protect the health of all New Yorkers." - the mayor tweeted alongside a picture of him standing side by side with people in a crowded train.

"There is no cause for alarm. Ebola is an extremely hard disease to contract. There is no reason for New Yorkers to change their daily routines in any way," he added during the press conference.

On the same day, de Blasio addressed the pubic through a press conference saying the city government is fully prepared to battle ebola and that there will be no ebola virus outbreak.

The first New York victim, Dr. Spencer, was back in the country on October 17 after helping in treatment of patients Guinea where 904 people died as of October 19. He only showed symptoms on Thursday and developed a fever that comes with nausea and pain. He is now isolated at the Bellevue Hospital Center, one of the eight medical facilities designated by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to specifically treated ebola disease.