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Airplanes and health. Nurse returned from Sierra Leone challenges the quarantine imposed by authorities

Fort Knox , USA - Kaci Hickox in isolation in her boyfriend’s house despite never showing Ebola symptoms

Kaci Hickox, the American nurse who came back from Sierra Leone on October 24 after a month treating Ebola-infected people with "Doctors Without Borders", challenged Maine’s authorities going out for a bike ride with her boyfriend. The woman landed at “JFK” airport last Friday. Health screenings found she had a low-grade fever and she was isolated in a tent at a New Jersey hospital (see also AVION...

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Rome, Italy, 10/30/2014 18:08
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