TRENTON, N.J. — The health care worker who sharply criticized being quarantined at a New Jersey hospital last year because she had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that Gov. Chris Christie and the state health department illegally held her against her will. Attorneys for Kaci Hickox filed […]
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Maine Public Radio reporters speak about Ebola nurse story
LEWISTON — For about a week last October, Maine was the center of news. Nurse Kaci Hickox had returned to her Fort Kent house after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. The state demanded she be quarantined at home for 21 days. She said the confinement was medically unnecessary and violated her rights. Newspeople camped […]
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Kaci Hickox explains what it’s like to treat Ebola victims
SOUTH PORTLAND — Much of the world has seen the photos of peering from a tent outside a New Jersey hospital. But on Tuesday evening, the Maine nurse shared images of herself in a tent she entered willingly, where she treated Ebola patients at the heart of the devastating outbreak in West Africa. Hickox, who […]
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Maine soldiers helping Ebola treatment efforts in Liberia
A Mainer from Hartland, a platoon leader with the 902nd Engineer Company, helped build a 50-patient Ebola treatment unit in Liberia, and another from Bingham is the noncommissioned officer in charge of protection, lodging and logistics for the facility. 1st Lt. Abraham Richardson and the 902nd built the first Ebola treatment unit, which opened on […]
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Ebola nurse, devastating fire, GOP victories top ’14 Maine stories
PORTLAND (AP) — The top three stories of the year in Maine all happened in little more than a week: a fire that killed six people, a nurse who treated Ebola patients and fought quarantine attempts, and the GOP winning big on Election Day. The worst fire in more than two decades — a blaze […]
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Local medical workers talk about Ebola
LEWISTON — When it comes to Ebola, misinformation can be as dangerous as the disease itself. With that in mind, a panel of experts from the local medical community gathered Wednesday night to update residents on all things Ebola. The bottom line: In the Lewiston-Auburn area, the hospitals and ambulance service are as prepared as […]
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Ebola nurse, boyfriend moving to Freeport
FORT KENT (AP) — An Ebola nurse who fought quarantines in New Jersey and Maine says she’s going to stay in southern Maine while she decides what to do next with her life. Monday marked the 21st day since Kaci Hickox’s last exposure to an Ebola patient. On Tuesday, she’ll be freed from daily monitoring. […]
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Ebola nurse says she would go back to Africa to help fight disease again
PORTLAND — The Maine nurse who defied quarantine attempts after treating Ebola patients in West Africa is looking forward to stepping out her front door — “like normal people.” Kaci Hickox’s plans for the end of the deadly disease’s 21-day incubation period include a dinner out with her boyfriend, but she told The Associated Press […]
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Health officials to host community forum on Ebola in Lewiston
LEWISTON — St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Central Maine Medical Center and United Ambulance will host a community forum on Ebola at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at the Franco Center at 46 Cedar St. Participants will learn what Ebola is, how a person can (and can’t) get it, what local hospitals and emergency […]