#American Nurse Defies Quarantine Order, Takes Bike Ride With Boyfriend!

The US nurse locked in a row with States authorities over having herself quarantined on return from Ebola infested West African country seems to have defied orders to remain in her home for 21 days.

Kaci Hickox went bike riding with her boyfriend Thursday morning, defying state orders to remain at home for 21 days.

The 33-year-old nurse, who recently treated Ebola patients in West Africa, told reporters late Wednesday that day-long negotiations had failed to resolve a deadlock over the quarantine issue.

Hickox, who had vowed to ignore the state order beginning Thursday, and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, donned helmets, stepped off the front porch of his rural house around 9 a.m. and rode off on mountain bikes. They were followed by an unmarked state police car and a band of reporters and photographers, ustoday.com reports.

Hickox, a nurse with Doctors Without Borders, arrived in Maine on Monday after being forcibly held in an isolation tent in New Jersey for three days under that state's strict new rule for health care workers who have recently treated Ebola patients in West Africa.                                                     

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