If this American nurse attracts much media during his bike ride, it is because it is at the heart of a controversy with the authorities about the Ebola virus.
Quarantine three days after returning from Sierra Leone despite the absence of suspicious symptoms, and subject to an order of restriction of movement, Kaci Hickox was finally authorized by a judge to leave his home.
It must simply meet three conditions: control very carefully its condition, coordinate its movements with the health authorities, and so prevent a symptom of the virus appears.
Claiming to have been treated "like a criminal", and very critical of the authorities' attitude towards her, the woman said she was very pleased with the judge's decision. It undertakes to take the necessary precautions as recommended by the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
The Governor of Maine Paul Lepage, he said he was very worried, accusing the nurse behave recklessly, "it clearly, and it feeds my disappointment, scoffed all the promises she made up here, he has reacted. So I can not trust him. I do not trust him. I do not have confidence because we do not know enough about the disease to afford to be too careless. "
To date, the US has had to deal with in their territory nine cases of Ebola, which since March has killed more than 5,000 people, mainly in West Africa.
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