Nurse who fought Maine Ebola quarantine moving out of state: report
(Reuters) - A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa and publicly
fought quarantine orders in New Jersey and Maine after returning to the
United States last month has decided to move away from her home state, a
newspaper in Maine reported.
Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, plan to leave Maine after Nov.
10, or the expiration of the monitoring period for the virus' 21-day
incubation, according to the Press Herald newspaper.
Wilbur did not say where the couple planned to move. "Were going to try to
get our lives back on track," he told the newspaper on Friday.
Wilbur and Hickox could not immediately be reached for comment.
Hickox returned to the United States last month after treating Ebola
patients in Sierra Leone and was quarantined in a tent outside a hospital in
New Jersey for four days despite showing no symptoms.
After criticizing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over the forced
isolation, she was driven to her boyfriend's home in Fort Kent, in Maine's
far north, where Governor Paul LePage ordered her quarantined even though
she had tested negative for the virus.
She publicly defied the order, drawing national attention to the battle
between states seeking to impose strict restrictions on healthcare workers
returning after treating Ebola patients and the civil liberties of those
individuals.
Last week, a judge ruled the isolation of Hickox was too stringent but
ordered her to continue self-monitoring through Nov. 10.
Medical experts say Ebola can be transmitted only through the bodily fluid
of a person who is exhibiting symptoms. The deadliest deadly outbreak of
Ebola on record has killed nearly 5,000 people, mostly in Liberia, Guinea
and Sierra Leone.
Tom Pelletier, Fort Kents chief of police, said he had received calls from
people who wanted him to arrest Hickox, local media reported.
Wilbur told the Press Herald he has withdrawn from his nursing program at
the University of Maine at Fort Kent because university officials were not
doing enough to stop threats against him.
Dan Demeritt, spokesman for the University of Maine System, told the Press
Herald the school "worked hard to balance the students' needs and the
overall concerns of the campus and the community."
Neither Pelletier nor a representative of the University of Maine could
immediately be reached.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in Seattle; editing by Matthew Lewis)
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