US nurse sues after being forced into quarantine as she returned from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone

Kaci Hickox accused #NewYork and #NewJersey officials of criminalising those risking their lives to fight virus in Africa.A US nurse who says she was treated like a "criminal" after returning from caring for Ebola victims in West Africa has hired a top human rights lawyer to challenge her enforced quarantine. Kaci Hickox, the first person to be placed under a new mandatory quarantine 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 of isolation despite testing negative for the disease.She has now hired Norman Siegel, a high profile civil rights attorney, to challenge the order.