A New York doctor who became America's last known Ebola case has been cured of the disease and is heading home.
Craig Spencer, 33, contracted Ebola while caring for Ebola patients in Guinea. He is due to be discharged from the hospital on Tuesday.
"After a rigorous course of treatment and testing, Dr Craig Spencer - the patient admitted and diagnosed with Ebola disease virus at HHC Bellevue Hospital Center - has been declared free of the virus," officials said in a statement on Monday.
The statement stressed that Spencer "poses no public health risk".
Spencer was admitted to Bellevue hospital and tested positive for Ebola on October 23.
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He was the first person in New York to be diagnosed with the disease.
New York is one of the busiest points of entry in the US and the city has repeatedly said it is fully prepared for any possible case of the disease that's killed some 5000 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
So far the US has treated nine Ebola victims; only one of them died.
Thomas Eric Duncan, who had travelled to Texas from his native Liberia, died on October 8, and two nurses who treated him in the intensive care unit of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were also infected. They have since recovered.
Spencer came back to the US on October 17, flying into John F Kennedy International Airport.
Officials say he then made an attempt at self-isolation, taking his temperature twice a day, although he was in close contact with his fiancee and two friends.
He also went bowling and used the subway before falling ill, causing some New Yorkers to worry about the potential spread of the disease despite repeated reassurances from city officials.
The resolution of America's final known Ebola case is a significant milestone, as communities across the country remain on high alert and are taking various measures to guard against the virus.
