DHAKA: A New York doctor who recently returned from Ebola-hit Guinea in West Africa has tested positive for the disease.

Dr Craig Spencer, who treated Ebola patients while working for the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), came down with a fever on Thursday, days after his return, officials say.

He is the first Ebola case diagnosed in New York, and the fourth in the US, reports BBC.

More than 4,800 people have died of Ebola - mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone - since March.

BDST: 0848 HRS, OCT 24, 2014