October 27, 2014
Mariah Timms
News Writer
National
A nurse who was detained and quarantined in New Jersey upon her return to the U.S. from West Africa will be discharged after testing negative for Ebola. The immediate quarantine is part of a new policy implemented in New York and New Jersey, and Kaci Hickox was the first to be subjected to it last week. Hickox has reported on her isolation, calling it inhumane. She was allegedly held in an unheated tent outside a New Jersey hospital despite displaying no symptoms of the disease, according to Doctors Without Borders. Civil rights attorney Norman Siegel says Hickox plans to sue for her release. After testing negative, she is being moved to Maine on a private plane in accordance with her own wishes, although she must still remain under monitoring according to the quarantine policy. Elsewhere in New York, a 5-year-old boy who recently traveled from Guinea has been admitted to Bellevue Hospital, New York, with Ebola-like symptoms and is awaiting test results.
