Spencer was the first and only person in New York to get Ebola virus in 2014. He worked for Doctors Without Borders at an Ebola treatment facility in Guinea, where he contracted the disease that ultimately killed more than 11,000 other people. While he was hospitalized with the virus, his liver started to fail, and he lost 20 pounds.
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