Nurse Kaci Hickox and the state of Maine have reached a settlement deal, allowing her to travel freely in public.
Hickox vocally expressed her outrage toward both Maine and New Jersey after she was quarantined upon her return to the United States after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
She was quarantined in a tent outside a New Jersey hospital for four days despite showing no symptoms and testing negative for Ebola.
The settlement, filed in her hometown of Fort Kent, Maine, allows her to travel freely in public, but also requires her health to be monitored closely. It will be in effect through Nov. 10, when the 21-day incubation period for Ebola ends, according to Reuters.
A few states have imposed mandatory 21-day quarantines on health workers returning from West Africa, though the White House says such quarantines will deter volunteers from heading to the virus-ravaged countries and become counterproductive.
There is only one other person in the United States being treated for Ebola, a New York man who worked with Doctors Without Borders in West Africa. He is currently in stable condition.
Nearly 5,000 people have died in the current Ebola outbreak, all but a handful in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
