US nurse says she will fight Ebola quarantine

Autor: Michael McCarthy
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: BMJ. 349:g6555-g6555
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g6555
Popis: The US nurse who cared for patients with Ebola virus disease in west Africa and is now being held in quarantine in her home in Maine said on 29 October that she would challenge her detention in court. The nurse, Kaci Hickox, was held in an isolation tent for three days outside a New Jersey hospital over the weekend after she returned from Sierra Leone. The 33 year old nurse was found to have a temperature of 101°F by a non-contact thermometer shortly after her arrival but was never found to be febrile when tested with oral thermometers. She had no symptoms of Ebola virus disease, and blood tests detected no evidence of infection with the virus. Hickox was released on 27 …
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