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US Nurse Quarantined For Ebola leaves Hospital by hackei(m): 7:25am On Oct 28, 2014
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A US nurse,
whose enforced quarantine in New Jersey
sparked a furious backlash after she returned
from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, was
discharged yesterday, officials said.
Kaci Hickox complained bitterly about being
placed under mandatory quarantine Friday,
claiming she was made to feel like a criminal
after being isolated in a tent without a shower or
flush toilet.
Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
announced that the nurse was being released, a
day after New York reversed strict new
quarantine orders under pressure from the
Obama administration.
A spokeswoman for University Hospital in
Newark, where Hickox was held in a tent outside
the main building and made to wear paper
scrubs, confirmed that she left shortly after 1:00
pm.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest on
Monday criticised her confinement and praised
Hickox for her bravery in travelling to West Africa
in a bid to treat patients suffering from the virus.
"Her service and commitment to this cause is
something that should be honored and respected,
and I don't think we do that by making her live in
a tent for two or three days," he said Monday.
Christie's office and New Jersey's department of
health said the patient remained symptom-free
after testing negative for Ebola, and would be
driven to her home state of Maine by private
carrier.
"I feel like my basic human rights have been
violated," she told CNN, insisting she was not
contagious because she has shown no symptoms
and tested negative for the disease.


source: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/US-nurse-quarantined-for-Ebola-leaves-hospital_17811578

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