U.S Ebola Nurse Breaks Quarantine!

In what was described as violation of her right, after she tested negative twice for Ebola, has no symptoms, but went on quarantine; Kaci Hickox, the U.S nurse who helped treated Ebola patients in West Africa, broke her quarantine by stepping outside with her boyfriend and spoke briefly to reporters Wednesday night.

U.S Nurse: Kaci Hickox

"I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me even though I am in perfectly good health," Hickox reportedly told a News source.

"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," she said.

Officials said she had a temperature - which she denies,  she was however released from Newark on Monday and flown back to Maine to be monitored at her boyfriend's house in Fort Kent. 

'I am frustrated by this fact, and I have been told that it is the Attorney General’s intention to file legal action against me.

'And if this does occur, I will challenge the legal actions.'

'We have been in negotiations all day with the state of Maine and tried to resolve this amicably, but they are not allowing me to leave my house and interact with the public even though I am completely healthy and symptom free,' Hickox reportedly told the Press Herald.

Kaci Hickox, in quarantine

Shaking  the hand of a British reporter at the scene, she said 'You could hug me. You could shake my hand. I would not give you Ebola,'.

Maine Health Commissioner Mary Mayhew reportedly said at a news conference... "When it is made clear by an individual in this risk category that they do not intend to voluntarily stay at home for the remaining 21 days, we will immediately seek a court order to ensure that they do not make contact with the public,".

Hickox criticized state guidelines that would require her to stay isolated at home for 21 days, saying she was "appalled" at restrictions she deemed unconstitutional and not based on science.

Kaci Hickox, who has been reportedly visiting the countries most affected by the Ebola Epidemic - Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia - to show US support, as well as Ghana, where the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response is based, claims that many other aid workers have entered the country and continue to do so without having to go through what she had.

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