By Sky News US Team
A US nurse who is in isolation after treating Ebola patients in West Africa says she does not plan to follow guidelines to quarantine herself until next month.
Kaci Hickox told television morning shows that she will sue if the state tries to keep her in seclusion.
She has tested negative for Ebola, but Maine health officials have recommended she be isolated at home in Fort Kent, Maine, until 10 November as a precaution.
Ms Hickox said she would remain in seclusion on Wednesday.
She told NBC's Today programme: "If the restrictions placed on me by the state of Maine are not lifted by Thursday morning, I will go to court to fight for my freedom."
Ms Hickox said the policies are "not scientifically or constitutionally just".
"I don't plan on sticking to the guidelines," she added.
She told ABC's Good Morning America programme she remained "completely symptom-free".
Lawyers for Ms Hickox said their client would challenge any move by Maine officials to seek a court order to enforce a quarantine.
She was the first person forced into New Jersey's mandatory quarantine after arriving at Newark's airport following her work in Sierra Leone for Doctors Without Borders.
Ms Hickox spent the weekend in a quarantine tent.
New York and New Jersey have defended their decision to impose automatic 21-day quarantines on doctors and nurses returning from the three countries at the heart of the outbreak.
But the rules exceed federal guidelines and President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that medical volunteers should not be discouraged from going to the frontline of the fight against Ebola.
He spoke as a Texas nurse who alarmed the public by boarding two US flights after being infected with Ebola from a dying patient walked out of hospital virus free.
Also on Wednesday, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered all US troops returning from Ebola missions in West Africa to be kept in supervised isolation for 21 days.
More than 1,000 US troops are in Liberia and Senegal supporting efforts to combat the virus.
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