FORT KENT — Kaci Hickox, the nurse released from isolation after returning last week to the U.S. from West Africa, where she treated Ebola patients, is back in Fort Kent and saying she will fight 21-day home quarantine. In response, Gov. Paul LePage issued a statement Wednesday morning saying the state would pursue legal action and Maine […]
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Nurse has arrived in Maine after Ebola quarantine in New Jersey
FORT KENT— A nurse who was confined against her will at a New Jersey hospital after treating Ebola patients in West Africa is seeking time to decompress at an undisclosed location in Maine, her lawyer said Tuesday. Kaci Hickox’s partner, a nursing student, has opted to stay away from the University of Maine at Fort Kent […]
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Ebola protocols: Nurse to self-quarantine in Fort Kent home
FORT KENT — A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa will be quarantined at home for 21 days after the last possible exposure to the disease under Maine’s health protocols, health officials said. The nurse, Kaci Hickox, left a New Jersey hospital on Monday and headed toward home in Fort Kent, where her partner […]
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Maine’s Ebola protocols mean quarantine for nurse
Nurse Kaci Hickox left a New Jersey hospital on Monday and headed toward home in northern Maine, where her partner is a University of Maine at Fort Kent nursing student who lives off campus. State health officials announced that she’d be quarantined at home for 21 days after the last possible exposure to the disease […]
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Health officials attempt to calm public fears about Ebola
PARIS — The director of the Oxford County Emergency Management Agency said Friday that although residents should be aware of developments in the spread of Ebola, they should be more focused on how to prevent contracting the flu. “All eyes are on Ebola, but the bigger worry right now is the flu,” Director Allyson Hill […]
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Maine CDC launches Ebola preparedness website
PORTLAND — Maine is launching a new website about preparedness and response to suspected cases of Ebola virus. The Maine Center for Disease Control announced the new website on Friday. The website includes fact sheets and answers to frequently asked questions about Ebola. Pages for health care providers include guidance from the federal Center for […]
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NYC doctor tests positive for ebola; three others quarantined
NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor who became New York City’s first Ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing symptoms, and health officials stressed that the nation’s most populous city need not fear his wide-ranging travel in the days before his illness began. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged […]
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N.Y. doctor back from Guinea has Ebola, 1st in city
NEW YORK (AP) — An emergency room doctor who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday urged residents not to be […]
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Timothy Stretton: U.N. the best agency to cope with Ebola crisis
Following the first known transmission of Ebola in the United States this month, the shores of West Africa no longer feel so far away. While diseases have never known borders, this reality has become ever more acute for Americans, whether we live near the hospital in Dallas and its now famous isolation unit, or here […]
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‘We cannot ignore what is happening’: Nurse from Brewer fights Ebola at its heart
Brewer native Sheila Davis is in West Africa, at the heart of the Ebola outbreak. She is surrounded by a deadly virus that has instilled fear in many Americans who will never come face to face with its devastation, and wants the public to know Ebola can be stopped — with science, not hysteria. Davis, […]