TORONTO – The woman who became known as the “Ebola Nurse” for defying quarantine orders in the U.S. wants people to stop calling her “Ebola Nurse.”
“I never had Ebola. I never had symptoms of Ebola,” Kaci Hickox wrote in an op-ed for The Guardian. “I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s private prison in Newark. I am now past the incubation period – meaning that I will not develop symptoms of Ebola.
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“I never had Ebola, so please stop calling me ‘the Ebola Nurse’ – now!”
Hickox has cleared a the 21-day incubation period.
WATCH: U.S. President Obama updated media on the Ebola outbreak saying, “As long as the outbreak continues to rage in the three countries in West Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, this is still going to be a major issue not just for America but the entire world.”
Hickox believes the quarantine orders that were issued for her after she returned from Sierra Leone had more to do with politics during U.S. midterm elections than with health concerns.
She also lashed out at Canada’s clampdown on travel from West African countries.
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“Discriminating against these entire countries, and groups of people that really need our help more than ever and need our support and our compassion more than ever, is quite shameful, actually,” she told the Canadian Press.
–with files from The Associated Press.
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