Ebola nurse defies quarantine

All but daring Maine health authorities to go to court to have her confined, nurse Kaci Hickox went out on a bike ride in defiance of the state’s voluntary quarantine for medical workers who have treated ebola patients.

It was the second time in two days that she left her home in remote northern Maine, along the Canadian border. On Wednesday, Hickox came out and briefly spoke to reporters, even shaking a hand that was offered to her.

State officials planned to go to court to have her confined against her will in what is shaping up as a test case yet in the struggle to balance public health and fear of ebola against personal freedom.