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Ebola-stricken doctor Craig Spencer to leave hospital

Dr. Craig Spencer will be released from Bellevue Hospital Tuesday morning after recovering from Ebola.

By Gabrielle Levy
Lights are on in the lower floors of Bellevue Hospital in New York City on October 23, 2014. A New York City doctor who had recently been working in Guinea treating Ebola patients was put into the hospital's quarantine unit after exhibiting a high fever today and will be tested for the Ebola virus. UPI/John Angelillo
Lights are on in the lower floors of Bellevue Hospital in New York City on October 23, 2014. A New York City doctor who had recently been working in Guinea treating Ebola patients was put into the hospital's quarantine unit after exhibiting a high fever today and will be tested for the Ebola virus. UPI/John Angelillo | License Photo

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A doctor who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning from treating patients in West Africa has been cured and will be discharged from the hospital Tuesday morning.

Craig Spencer, 33, was declared free of the virus and will be released from New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center, sources separately told the New York Times and WABC

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It's not clear if Spencer will return to his home in Hamilton Heights, which he shares with his fiancee Morgan Dixon.

Spencer's diagnosis on Oct. 23 set off concerns in the nation's largest city when he was rushed to Bellevue with a 100.3-degree fever. He had taken the subway, gone bowling and ridden in a taxi the previous evening.

With Spencer declared Ebola-free, there are no longer any cases of the disease in the United States. Only four people have developed symptoms of Ebola while in the U.S.: Spencer and Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who became ill and died in Texas after traveling from Africa, along with Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, two nurses who treated Duncan in Dallas.

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Both nurses, along with several other Americans who became ill with Ebola overseas and were flown back the U.S. for treatment, have recovered.

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