Nurse: ‘I won’t obey quarantine rules’

Fighting back ... Nurse Kaci Hickox in an isolation tent at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. Picture: AP Photo/Steven Hyman. Source: AP

A nurse who was confined against her will at a New Jersey hospital after returning from West Africa where she treated Ebola patients said she's prepared to go to court if the state of Maine tries to quarantine her.

Kaci Hickox spoke to the US Today show and Good Morning America from Fort Kent, where her boyfriend is a senior nursing student.

She said she has so far abided by the state's voluntary quarantine. She had no contact with anyone yesterday or today, she said.

'Inhumane' ... Kaci Hickox was quarantined because she had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa. Picture: AP Photo/University of Texas at Arlington Source: AP

But Ms Hickox says if the restrictions aren't lifted by tomorrow, she will go to court to fight for her freedom.

"I don't plan on sticking to the guidelines," Ms Hickox said on Today. "I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me even though I am in perfectly good health."

Ms Hickox, who volunteered in Africa with Doctors Without Borders, was the first person forced into New Jersey's mandatory quarantine for people arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport from three West African countries.

Doctor without borders ... Kaci Hickox says her treatment has been inhumane. Picture: AP Photo/University of Texas at Arlington Source: AP

Ms Hickox, who spent the weekend in a quarantine tent, said she never had Ebola symptoms and tested negative in a preliminary evaluation, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo were sharply criticised for ordering mandatory quarantines.

"I am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forced to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public," she said.

Meeting ... Quarantined nurse Kaci Hickox meets with the prominent New York civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, seated, at the isolation tent at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. Picture: AP Photo/Steven Hyman. Source: AP

The Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew said her department and the attorney general's office were prepared to take legal steps to legally enforce the state's voluntary quarantine if someone declines to cooperate.

"We do not want to have to legally enforce in-home quarantine," she said. "We're confident that selfless health workers who were brave enough to care for Ebola patients in a foreign country will be willing to take reasonable steps to protect residents of their own country."

Ms Hickox said that she remains concerned by the mandatory quarantines.

"I truly believe that this policy is not scientifically or constitutionally just," she said.

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