--- title: Ebola: Nurse Kaci Hickox and Maine Reach Quarantine Agreement description: A nurse quarantined after returning form treating Ebola patients reached a settlement with Maine as she finishes out her incubation period canonical: https://time.com/3554773/kaci-hickox-ebola-quarantine/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-03T18:34:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:11:16.084Z article:section: Health og:title: Nurse, Maine Reach Ebola Quarantine Settlement og:description: Nurse has publicly railed against a forced quarantine og:url: https://time.com/3554773/kaci-hickox-ebola-quarantine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1aaa08bbe26e635/698763dbe20a8701bfa82ca1/kaci-hickox-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Maine Nurse Challenges Mandatory Quarantine Order og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nurse, Maine Reach Ebola Quarantine Settlement twitter:description: Nurse has publicly railed against a forced quarantine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1aaa08bbe26e635/698763dbe20a8701bfa82ca1/kaci-hickox-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nurse, Maine Reach Ebola Quarantine Settlement > Sponsored content. 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Spencer Platt—Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Nov 3, 2014 6:34 PM UTC A nurse who was briefly quarantined after returning form treating Ebola patients in West Africa [reached a settlement](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/03/us-health-ebola-usa-maine-idUSKBN0IN1FD20141103) on Monday with Maine regarding precautions as she finishes out her 21-day incubation period. Kaci Hickox, who was forcibly quarantined in New Jersey last month after returning from Sierra Leone, despite showing no symptoms and a negative Ebola test, is allowed to freely travel but must closely monitor her health and report any symptoms, Reuters reports. The agreement, which stays in effect through Nov. 10, requires monitoring that other returnees have already been doing. Hickox had recently gotten into a legal battle with Maine over a forced quarantine, even going on a bike ride in a show of protest. On Oct. 31, a judge ruled she should be allowed to travel as she wishes, and that restricting her to her home was unnecessary. \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/03/us-health-ebola-usa-maine-idUSKBN0IN1FD20141103)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3554773/kaci-hickox-ebola-quarantine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3554773/kaci-hickox-ebola-quarantine/"},"headline":"Nurse, Maine Reach Ebola Quarantine Settlement","datePublished":"2014-11-03T18:34:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:11:16.084Z","description":"Nurse has publicly railed against a forced quarantine","url":"https://time.com/3554773/kaci-hickox-ebola-quarantine/","keywords":["ebola","Maine","Quarantine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1aaa08bbe26e635/698763dbe20a8701bfa82ca1/kaci-hickox-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1aaa08bbe26e635/698763dbe20a8701bfa82ca1/kaci-hickox-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Maine Nurse Challenges Mandatory Quarantine Order","caption":"Maine Nurse Challenges Mandatory Quarantine Order","creditText":"Spencer Platt—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3554773/kaci-hickox-ebola-quarantine/","name":"Nurse, Maine Reach Ebola Quarantine Settlement"}}]}] ```