--- title: Ebola Nurse Doll That Looks Like Kaci Hickox Now On Sale description: The toy producer says that the "Case-E" doll is not intended to be Kaci Hickox canonical: https://time.com/3575992/ebola-free-nurse-doll-kaci-hickox/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-10T16:30:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:19.668Z og:title: Here's the Ebola-Free Nurse Doll You Never Asked For og:description: The toy producer says that the "Case-E" doll doesn't resemble Kaci Hickox og:url: https://time.com/3575992/ebola-free-nurse-doll-kaci-hickox/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5232ceb6ca8e1dfe/698767fae53abad7d04d5d2b/case-e-web.jpg?branch=production&width=1039&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1039 og:image:height: 584 og:image:alt: Case-E-web og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's the Ebola-Free Nurse Doll You Never Asked For twitter:description: The toy producer says that the "Case-E" doll doesn't resemble Kaci Hickox twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5232ceb6ca8e1dfe/698767fae53abad7d04d5d2b/case-e-web.jpg?branch=production&width=1039&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's the Ebola-Free Nurse Doll You Never Knew You Wanted > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 10, 2014 4:30 PM UTC  Herobuilders.com by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 10, 2014 4:30 PM UTC With the holidays right around the corner, parents can now buy their children an untraditional yet socially relevant gift: The [“Case-E Ebola Nurse Action Figure.”](http://www.herobuilders.com/pop+culture+action+figures.htm) [Herobuilders.com](http://www.herobuilders.com/pop+culture+action+figures.htm) made the toy of an Ebola-free nurse with curly hair and a red “x” sewed over her eye, who bears a strong resemblance to Kaci Hickox, the nurse who made [headlines](http://time.com/3556032/ebola-nurse-kaci-hickox-quarantine/) for fighting New Jersey and Maine over their controversial quarantine policy for those returning from Ebola affected countries. “I don’t know who you’re talking about, I don’t know who Kaci Hickox is,” Hero Builders president Emil Vicale tells TIME, laughing. “This nurse’s name is Case-E. She bears no resemblance.” Here’s Kaci Hickox:  Kaci Hickox Spencer Platt—Getty Images The toy, which comes complete with an Ebola-free certificate, went on sale for $29.99 Monday morning. “We held out and tried not to make this Ebola thing, but the story just won’t go away,” Vicale says. “So it’s like we’re being pushed to make this toy.” [Herobuilders.com](http://Herobuilders.com) also sells dolls of the World’s Sexiest Criminal and Rob Ford, complete with beer bottle accessories. This isn’t the first Ebola-related toy to make headlines. Connecticut manufacturer [Giantmicrobes Inc sold out](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/20/us-health-ebola-usa-toy-idUSKCN0I629S20141020) of its plush Ebola dolls and Ebola petri dish toys in late October. Vicale says that only 500 of the Ebola nurse dolls will be available before the holidays. It will be on sale again come January. “Who knew Ebola would get my blood boiling?” he says. “Get it?” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3575992/ebola-free-nurse-doll-kaci-hickox/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3575992/ebola-free-nurse-doll-kaci-hickox/"},"headline":"Here's the Ebola-Free Nurse Doll You Never Knew You Wanted","datePublished":"2014-11-10T16:30:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:19.668Z","description":"The toy producer says that any resemblance to Kaci Hickox is purely coincidental","url":"https://time.com/3575992/ebola-free-nurse-doll-kaci-hickox/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5232ceb6ca8e1dfe/698767fae53abad7d04d5d2b/case-e-web.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5232ceb6ca8e1dfe/698767fae53abad7d04d5d2b/case-e-web.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Case-E-web","caption":"","creditText":"Herobuilders.com","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3575992/ebola-free-nurse-doll-kaci-hickox/","name":"Here's the Ebola-Free Nurse Doll You Never Knew You Wanted"}}]}] ```