Ebola nurse, boyfriend plan to leave Maine town

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who successfully fought an Ebola quarantine order in Maine, is planning to leave town with her boyfriend and may move out of state.

The 33-year-old nurse, who recently treated Ebola patients in West Africa, and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, will leave Fort Kent, Maine, after the last day of her 21-day Ebola quarantine period, which ends Monday, Wilbur says.

Wilbur withdrew Friday from the University of Maine campus in Fort Kent, where he was a senior nursing student. Hickox said they were exploring the idea of relocating and looking at a new college, likely outside Maine.

Hickox drew national attention when she took a bike ride despite a request that she remain quarantined in her home until the end of the incubation period for the disease.

She says her goal was to make the national debate "about science, not politics."

A state judge sided with Hickox when she challenged an order to isolate her after she returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa.

Contributing: The Associated Press