Kaci Hickox, a nurse who cared for the patients in West Africa by Ebola and was asked for two days in New Jersey under quarantine, arrive back in the US, allegedly refused, another quarantine in the state of Maine to undergo house.
Although Hickox showed no symptoms of Ebola and tests for viruses were negative, Maine requires that the health of workers returning from West Africa to participate in a quarantine of 21 days - whether they are symptomatic. If you continue the quarantine officials can legally be said to ignore.
"We believe that the health of workers engaged brave enough to deal with Ebola in a foreign country patients will be willing to take reasonable steps to residents of the home country to be protected," Mary Mayhew, Commissioner of the Department of State Social - and health services, told NBC News . "However, we are willing to continue the legal authority, if necessary, to ensure that the risk to people in Maine minimized."
But one of the Hickox said Norman Siegel lawyers ABC News that his violation of the rights of customers , description of the quarantine policy in force as products of fear rather than medical reality. He said that, if successful, Hickox hope that his case will be a catalyst for change in terms of necessary quarantine procedures.
Hickox, 29, was detained for two days in a tent in the isolation of Newark, New Jersey after returning from a trip to Doctors Without Borders in West Africa. She was the first person to be against the forced quarantine policy of the state. After leaving Maine, on Monday, it announced it would not participate in a second 21-day quarantine.
The prosecution emphasized their lack of symptoms as proof that more insulation is useless, that comfort to some residents of Maine, the ". Quite frightening" the situation as
"I feel bad for Kaci, because I know this must be hard feeling ostracized it a bit," residents of Fort Kent Pinette Robin told NBC News. "But we are with the whole community, not a single person here."
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