Asking the CDC for personal health advice, as this nurse did, is like calling the North Pole and expecting to talk to Santa.
You don't think the CDC gave the caregivers a special number to call?
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if in the end it turns out that one of the main honchos okayed her request.
I would be VERY surprised if that were the case.
A couple of things that were readily apparent in previous Ebola outbreaks, and have been active in west Africa during the current outbreak:
1) Media frenzy provides a lot of misinformation to the public and creates local panics.
2) Conspiracy theorists accuse their own governments/authorities of deliberatley causing the epidemic.
3) Families and friends of Ebola victims accuse the healthcare workers actually treating sick people of deliberately killing their loved ones.
There's a lot of paranoia going on here.
