EBOLA OUTBREAK: NURSE KACI HICKOX DEFIES QUARANTINE (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Thursday, October 30, 2014, 11:28

Kaci Hickox said she was not willing to "let my civil rights be violated when it's not science-based".

A US nurse who returned from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has defied a quarantine order, leaving her house in Maine for a brief bike ride.

Kaci Hickox maintains isolation is unnecessary, as she has no symptoms and has tested negative for Ebola.

Maine officials have vowed to go to court to try to enforce the quarantine.

Nearly 5,000 people have died of the disease in West Africa, but only nine patients have been treated for the virus on US soil.

More than 13,700 people have been sickened in total, the vast majority in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Ebola, which is only spread through close contact with the bodily fluids of a sick patient, has an incubation period of up to 21 days, during which patients neither show symptoms nor are infectious.

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