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Ebola stand-off between nurse and police continues in Maine

An ebola stand-off between a US nurse and the state of Maine continues - as she refuses to comply...
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08.24 30 Oct 2014


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Ebola stand-off between nurse and police continues in Maine

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08.24 30 Oct 2014


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An ebola stand-off between a US nurse and the state of Maine continues - as she refuses to comply with orders that she remain quarantined in her house for 21 days.

The nurse recently returned from West Africa defied quarantine yesterday by going on a bike ride with her boyfriend.

Kaci Hickox, who gave a statement to reporters on Wednesday night, followed through on her threat to go out and about. Police followed the couple but were unable to stop them without a court order signed by a judge.

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Ms Hickox, 33, insists there is no need for confinement because she has shown no symptoms and has twice tested negative for Ebola.

She had vowed to go to court over attempts to keep her in seclusion, but Maine's governor said officials would pursue legal authority to do just that.

State officials say Ms Hickox should be detained for the remainder of the 21-day incubation period for Ebola that ends on 10 November.

Ms Hickox was the first person forced into New Jersey's mandatory quarantine after arriving at Newark airport on Friday following her work in Sierra Leone for Doctors Without Borders.

She was released on Monday and taken to Maine under supervised conditions.

Police have been monitoring her movements at the Fort Kent property of her boyfriend, a nursing student, where she has been staying.

Speaking outside the property on Wednesday night, when she shook someone's hand, Ms Hickox said: "I'm completely healthy and symptom-free.

"So I am not going to sit around and be bullied around by politicians and be forced to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public."

Ms Hickox said the policies are "not scientifically or constitutionally just".


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