An American nurse for Doctors Without Borders, who was forcibly held in isolation in New Jersey after returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierrra Leone, says she won't obey instructions to stay at home in the state of Maine for 21 days.
Kaci Hickox was pulled aside at Newark Airport on Friday under new regulations, but has showed no symptoms of the virus.
Lorna Shaddick reports.
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Kaci Hickox told NBC's Today show that the quarantine policy isn't only violating her Constitutional rights, it's also not scientifically correct:
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OUT: ...the American public
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Kaci Hickox told NBC's Today show that the response to the virus in the US needs improvement:
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OUT: ...messages from politicians
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Meanwhile, a national organisation of disease experts in the US is criticising mandatory quarantining of health workers. Dr. Jeff Engel is from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists in Atlanta, and says such measures do more harm than good:
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Dr. Jeff Engel, from the US Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, says there's no medical reason that nurse Kaci Hickox should be quarantined:
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