US nurse sues after being forced into quarantine as she returned from West Africa

American nurse Kaci Hickox who has just returned from West Africa where she went to treat Ebola patients is being placed in isolation unit for 21 days despite testing negative for the disease.

Now Hickox felt her basic human rights have been violated and has hired a top human rights lawyer to challenge her enforced quarantine.

A new mandatory quarantine has been put in place for health workers who arrive back in the US via airports in New York, New Jersey and Chicago, was ordered into a 21 day period and Kaci Hickox is the first person to be placed under it.

She has now hired Norman Siegel, a high profile civil rights attorney, to challenge the order.

According to The Telegraph, in an open letter to a newspaper in Texas, where she studied nursing, she claimed her human rights were abused when she was sent to hospital in a Hamzat suit having falsely tested positive for a fever at New Jersey’s Newark Airport.

She added that she was “scared” for other health workers who risked their lives to volunteer in the Ebola-stricken nations at the heart of the current outbreak, and feared that doctors and nurses would be put off for fear of being treated as an outcast when they returned.