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Friday, October 31, 2014

In About-Face, Judge Rules Against Maine in Quarantine of Nurse

In About-Face, Judge Rules Against Maine in Quarantine of Nurse
Less than a day after confining a nurse who treated Ebola victims to her house, a judge in Maine has lifted the quarantine, rejecting arguments by the State of Maine that the measure was necessary to protect the public.
Within an hour of the decision, state troopers who had been parked outside the nurse’s house for days had left.
The order, signed on Friday by Judge Charles C. LaVerdiere, the chief judge for the Maine District Courts who serves in Kennebec and Somerset counties, said the nurse, Kaci Hickox, “currently does not show symptoms of Ebola and is therefore not infectious.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/us/ebola-maine-nurse-kaci-hickox.html?emc=edit_na_20141031

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