A US nurse who works for Doctors Without Borders, has hired a civil
rights lawyer to sue after she was forced into quarantine on returning
to the US from caring for Ebola victims in Sierra Leone. The US Govt
recently started a mandatory 21-day quarantine order for all health
workers who arrived back in the US via airports in New York, New
Jersey and Chicago, to help stop the spread of Ebola.
Kaci Hickox, (pictured above) who was the first person to be placed into
the 21 day period of isolation, said she was treated like a 'criminal'
after risking her life to volunteer in an Ebola-stricken country. Her
lawyer said Kaci's human rights were abused when she was sent to
hospital in a protective suit after arriving at New Jersey's
Newark Airport...
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