An American nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone is to sue over being forced into quarantine, despite testing negative for the disease.
Doctors Without Borders worker Kaci Hickox returned to the US on Friday and was promptly put into isolation at a New Jersey hospital.
She has tested free of the deadly virus, but was told she would be unable to leave for another 21 days - when the disease's incubation period ends.
Her lawyer said the order violated her constitutional rights.
Writing in The Dallas Morning News, Ms Hickox said: "This is not a situation I would wish on anyone, and I am scared for those who will follow me.
"I am scared that, like me, they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganisation, fear and, most frightening, quarantine."
She said that upon telling a border official she had just returned from West Africa, she was immediately ushered into a private room before having questions "barked" at her.
She said she was made to wait hours with little to eat.
"I... thought of many colleagues who will return home to America and face the same ordeal. Will they be made to feel like criminals and prisoners?" Ms Hickox said.
"The US must treat returning health care workers with dignity and humanity," said the nurse, who has a bed, a portable toilet and a sink, but no shower.
Three states - New York, New Jersey and Illinois - introduced the mandatory 21-day quarantine period for anyone who has been involved in treating victims in West Africa.
Other states, including Virginia and Georgia, are also considering whether to impose the same regime.
However, Ms Hickox's treatment has been widely criticised.
Under mounting pressure, the governors of New York and New Jersey said on Sunday evening that quarantined medical workers who did not show symptoms could be allowed to remain at home.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said: "We're doing everything possible. Some people say we're being too cautious - I'll take that criticism."
Under the protocols, New York state will also pay compensation if quarantined workers are not paid by a volunteer organisation.
On Sunday, a top US health official warned that the quarantines could discourage qualified doctors from volunteering in West Africa.
Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said: "We do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to even volunteer to go.
"If we don't have our people volunteering to go over there, then you're going to have other countries that are not going to do it and then the epidemic will continue to roar."
The number of Ebola cases worldwide has now exceeded 10,000, with nearly 5,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organisation.
The US quarantines followed the positive diagnosis of doctor Craig Spencer, who fell ill days after returning to his New York City home from treating Ebola patients in Guinea.
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