Ebola aid worker Kaci Hickox to be released from New Jersey quarantine

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who has threatened to sue for being quarantined in New Jersey after treating Ebola victims in Africa, is being released:

Breaking: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says quarantined nurse, Kaci Hickox can go home after being cleared by the CDC.

— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) October 27, 2014

Hickox will return home to Maine:

NBC's @LexiNBC reports nurse Kaci Hickox will be allowed to leave New Jersey & travel to Maine because she hasn't had symptoms for 24 hours.

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) October 27, 2014

NJ announces it is releasing nurse Kaci Hickox from quarantine and transporting her by "private carrier" home to Maine #ebola

— RickLeventhalFoxNews (@RickLeventhal) October 27, 2014

The long, national nightmare is over https://t.co/iASgbn3eiT #KaciHickox

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) October 27, 2014

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