Nurse Hickox satisfied with judge's ruling on quarantine

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Declaring Ebola fears in the United States "not entirely rational," a judge rejected Maine's bid for a quarantine on a nurse who treated victims of the disease in West Africa but tested negative for it, and instead imposed limited restrictions.

Nurse Kaci Hickox's challenge of the Maine quarantine became a key battleground for the dispute between officials in some U.S. states who have imposed strict quarantines on health workers returning from three Ebola-ravaged West African countries and the federal government, which opposes such measures.

Speaking to reporters, Friday (October 31) alongside boyfriend Ted Wilbur outside her two-story clapboard house in the sma

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