Potential Ebola patient in New York had contact with few people

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The doctor being tested for Ebola at a New York City hospital had direct contact with very few people, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday. “Our understanding is that very few people were in direct contact with him,” the mayor said of the patient at Bellevue Hospital, identified as Dr. Craig Spencer of Harlem. (Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Jonathan Allen)