TRENTON, N.J. — The health care worker who sharply criticized being quarantined at a New Jersey hospital last year because she had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that Gov. Chris Christie and the state health department illegally held her against her will. Attorneys for Kaci Hickox filed […]
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Maine Public Radio reporters speak about Ebola nurse story
LEWISTON — For about a week last October, Maine was the center of news. Nurse Kaci Hickox had returned to her Fort Kent house after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. The state demanded she be quarantined at home for 21 days. She said the confinement was medically unnecessary and violated her rights. Newspeople camped […]
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Kaci Hickox explains what it’s like to treat Ebola victims
SOUTH PORTLAND — Much of the world has seen the photos of peering from a tent outside a New Jersey hospital. But on Tuesday evening, the Maine nurse shared images of herself in a tent she entered willingly, where she treated Ebola patients at the heart of the devastating outbreak in West Africa. Hickox, who […]
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Fort Kent nurse’s boyfriend still barred from UMFK campus
FORT KENT (AP) — A nurse who successfully fought Maine’s quarantine for health care workers who have treated Ebola patients is free to go wherever she pleases, but her boyfriend on Monday was still staying away from the campus where he’s a nursing student. Ted Wilbur told reporters that the University of Maine at Fort […]
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Nurse: No option but to fight Ebola quarantine
FORT KENT (AP) — A nurse who successfully fought Maine’s quarantine for health care workers who have treated Ebola patients said she had no option but to challenge how medical professionals were being treated. Kaci Hickox said in an interview with the Maine Sunday Telegram she was fighting for the rights of other U.S. medical […]
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Video: Judge rejects quarantine for nurse Kaci Hickox
FORT KENT — A Maine judge gave nurse Kaci Hickox the OK to go wherever she pleases, handing state officials a defeat Friday in their bid to restrict her movements as a precaution against Ebola. In a case that has come to define the clash between personal freedom and fear of disease, Judge Charles C. […]
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LePage says he will back off quarantine if nurse takes blood test
FORT KENT — The nurse at the center of a quarantine controversy stemming from her work in Ebola-stricken western Africa left her house and hopped on a bicycle to take a ride Thursday morning. Meanwhile, Gov. Paul LePage told ABC News he would drop the state’s demand that Kaci Hickox agree to a quarantine at […]
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Nurse in Fort Kent defies ebola quarantine, goes for bike ride
UPDATED – 2:03 p.m. FORT KENT (AP) — Practically daring Maine health authorities to go to court to have her confined, nurse Kaci Hickox went out on a bike ride Thursday in defiance of the state’s voluntary quarantine for medical workers who have treated Ebola patients. It was the second time in two days that […]
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Ebola nurse upset over quarantine in Fort Kent home goes outside as police watch
Kaci Hickox broke her quarantine by leaving her home with her boyfriend and speaking briefly to reporters in her driveway Wednesday evening. State and local police could only watch from across the street because a judge hadn’t signed off on a court order sought by state health officials. She reiterated that she planned to fight […]
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LePage says Maine will seek to enforce quarantine on nurse
FORT KENT — Kaci Hickox, the nurse released from isolation after returning last week to the U.S. from West Africa, where she treated Ebola patients, is back in Fort Kent and saying she will fight 21-day home quarantine. In response, Gov. Paul LePage issued a statement Wednesday morning saying the state would pursue legal action and Maine […]