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FILE-In this Feb. 11, 2016 file photo, Dallas County Mosquito Lab microbiologist Spencer Lockwood sorts mosquitos collected in a trap in Hutchins, Texas, that had been set up in Dallas County near the location of a confirmed Zika virus infection. U.S. health officials have begun enrolling volunteers for critical next-stage testing of an experimental vaccine to protect against Zika, the mosquito-borne virus that can cause devastating birth defects in pregnant women. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

US enrolls volunteers in large test of possible Zika vaccine

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

Health workers wearing protective gear wait to carry the body of a person suspected to have died from Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia, on Oct. 13, 2014. (Associated Press)

Ebola vaccine fast-tracked after proven 100% effective in trials

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is behind the large outbreaks of Zika virus in Latin America and the Caribbean. On Friday, July 29, 2016, Florida said four Zika infections in the Miami area are likely the first caused by mosquito bites in the continental U.S. All previous U.S. cases have been linked to outbreak countries. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

NIH official: Don’t expect ‘broad’ Zika outbreak despite Florida cases; disease could hang around

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Congress needs to provide more funding to fight the Zika virus. (Associated Press/File)

No Ebola funds to fight Zika, Obama’s health officials tell Congress

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Ben Carson speaks during the Freedom Summit, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Ben Carson: Vaccines are good medicine, not political issue

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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Anthony Fauci: Tighter Ebola measures may weaken gains in West Africa, expose U.S.

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Kaci Hickox, a health care worker who returned from fighting Ebola in West Africa, wrote a scathing review of "inhumane" treatment by inspectors at Newark Liberty International Airport and her ongoing quarantine. Ms. Hickox is the first traveler quarantined under new guidelines established in New Jersey and New York. (University of Texas at Arlington via Associated Press)

Ebola health worker quarantines pit politics vs. science

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Health workers load a body of a man at a back of a truck suspected to have died of Ebola virus in Paynesville Community situated on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Ebola has killed more than 2,000 people in her country and has brought it to "a standstill," noting that Liberia and two other badly hit countries were already weakened by years of war. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Fauci: Quarantines could hamper efforts to fight Ebola abroad

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, center, speaks at a news conference, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014 in New York. At left is Dr. Howard Zucker, acting commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is at right. The governors announced a mandatory quarantine for people returning to the United States through airports in New York and New Jersey who are deemed &quot;high risk.&quot; In the first application of the new set of standards, the states are quarantining a female healthcare worker returning from Africa who took care of Ebola patients. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Cuomo revises New York policy for Ebola quarantine

By Frank Eltman - Associated Press

President Barack Obama hugs Ebola survivor Nina Pham in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Pham, the first nurse diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected man at a Dallas hospital is free of the virus. The 26-year-old Pham arrived last week at the NIH Clinical Center. She had been flown there from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Nina Pham, first nurse to get Ebola in Dallas, now virus-free: NIH

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the original Centers for Disease Control and Prevention instructions for dealing with the virus were taken from the World Health Organization's protocol for Africa, where conditions are much different from those in U.S. hospitals. (Associated Press)

Ebola protocols flawed, left U.S. nurses vulnerable, health official says

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this frame grab from video provided by Texas Health Resources, Nina Pham, who contracted Ebola after treating a Liberian man, talks while being recorded at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, before being flown to the National Institutes of Health outside Washington. Pham is shown in the video — posted online by the hospital's parent company — smiling as she sits upright in a hospital bed while a man identified as her treating physician can be heard thanking her for getting well and being part of the volunteer team that took care of the first patient. (AP Photo/Texas Health Resources, Dr. Gary Weinstein)

Nina Pham, first nurse to get Ebola, in ‘high spirits’ at Md. facility

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Tom Frieden speaks during a news conference. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) ** FILE**

Experts: Troops not at risk for Ebola

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A hazardous material cleaner arrives at the apartment complex in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas stayed last week. The crew is expected to remove items including towels and bed sheets used by Duncan, who is being treated at an isolation unit at a Dallas hospital. The family living there has been confined under armed guard while being monitored by health officials. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Obama administration attempts to quell fears about Ebola

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This Aug. 12, 2014, file photo shows a health care worker walking near a Ebola isolation unit wearing protective gear against the virus at Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone. (AP Photo/ Michael Duff, File) ** FILE **

U.S. to begin safety testing Ebola vaccine next week

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

This image provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine shows Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins' Children's Center in Baltimore. A baby, born with the AIDS virus, appears to have been cured scientists announced Sunday, March 3, 2013, describing the case of a child from Mississippi, who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection. If the child remains free of HIV, it would mark only the world's second known cure. (AP Photo/Johns Hopkins Medicine)

Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press

Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

Scientists to resume work with lab-bred bird flu

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press