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In this photo taken Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014, Promise Cooper, 16, Emmanuel Junior Cooper, 11, and Benson Cooper, 15, sit at their St. Paul Bridge home in Monrovia, Liberia. The Cooper children are now orphans, having lost their mother Princess in July, and their father Emmanuel in August. Their 5-month-old baby brother Success also succumbed to the virus in August. Ruth, their 13-year-old sister is being hospitalized with Ebola. The three never fell sick to the deadly disease. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Ebola orphans: Young and old ostracized, orphaned by Ebola

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

Dr. Craig Spencer, who had been treating patients in Guinea, was transported to Bellevue Hospital and treated. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

BRUCE FEIN: Taking Ebola seriously

By Bruce Fein

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)

Kaci Hickox to be released from N.J. quarantine, then sent by private ambulance to Maine home

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

CDC Director Tom Frieden (Associated Press)

CDC unveils a four-tier Ebola risk scale to help local authorities

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

The 615th Engineer Company, 52nd Engineer Battalion will be deploying approximately 160 engineers to West Africa to help with the fight against Ebola. The soldiers will not be working directly with Ebola patients, but are receiving specific medical training to ensure they are protected from exposure to Ebola. Some of those soldiers were training those skills on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. A line of soldiers hold up their hands to show that they have finished putting on their second layer of gloves. They wear a total of three pairs of gloves. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Jerilee Bennett)

WHO: Number of Ebola-linked cases passes 10,000

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

President Barack Obama meets with 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)

Ebola: More calls for travel bans or quarantines

By Connie Cass - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014, file photo, Bellevue Hospital nurse Belkys Fortune, left, and Teressa Celia, Associate Director of Infection Prevention and Control, pose in protective suits in an isolation room, in the Emergency Room of the hospital, during a demonstration of procedures for possible Ebola patients in New York. A doctor who recently returned to New York City from West Africa is being tested for the Ebola virus. The doctor had a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms and was taken Thursday to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

N.Y. and N.J. say they will require Ebola quarantines

By Marilynn Marchione and Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

People walk past The Meatball Shop, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York. Dr. Craig Spencer, who has been diagnosed with Ebola, recently ate at the restaurant, which was temporarily closed Friday as a precaution. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Ebola cases in New York and Mali fan travel fears

By Connie Cass - Associated Press

In this Oct. 8, 2014, file photo, Bellevue Hospital nurse Belkys Fortune, left, and Teressa Celia, Associate Director of Infection Prevention and Control, pose in protective suits in an isolation room, in the Emergency Room of the hospital, during a demonstration of procedures for possible Ebola patients in New York. A doctor who recently returned to New York City from West Africa is being tested for the Ebola virus. The doctor had a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms and was taken Thursday to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

New York doctor tests positive for Ebola, had used public transportation

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Registered nurse Keene Roadman stands fully dressed in personal protective equipment during a training class at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines Monday for how health workers should gear up to treat Ebola patients. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) — FILE

US to track everyone coming from Ebola nations

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

Registered nurse Keene Roadman stands fully dressed in personal protective equipment during a training class at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines Monday for how health workers should gear up to treat Ebola patients. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) — FILE

US expands Ebola checks; Rwanda to check Americans

By By Connie Cass and Alicia Caldwell - Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, maintained that an Ebola-related travel ban would have "downsides" as he made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama administration resists Ebola travel ban even as other nations restrict entry

By Valerie Richardson - 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

Gloves and rubber boots forming part of the Ebola prevention gear for health workers at a clinic are set outside for the sun to dry them after being washed in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Border closures, flight bans and mass quarantines are creating a sense of siege in the West African countries affected by Ebola, officials at an emergency African Union meeting said Monday, as Senegal agreed to allow humanitarian aid pass through its closed borders. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

WHO: Ebola outbreak in Senegal is officially over

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Medical staff wearing protective clothing arrives at the apartment building of the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Officials said a nurse and a nursing assistant have been placed under observation for Ebola in a Madrid hospital where a colleague became infected after working with two Spanish missionary priests who contracted the disease in West Africa and later died at the center. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

U.S. military planes arrive at epicenter of Ebola

By Jonathan Paye-Layleh and Ciaran Giles - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2014 file photo, hazardous material cleaners disinfectant their personal protective equipment after working in the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed last week, in Dallas. The Homeland Security Department has ordered agents at airports and other ports of entry to observe everyone coming into the United States for potential signs of Ebola infection, officials said Wednesday. Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Customs and Border Protection agents are also handing out factsheets to travelers with details of what symptoms to look for and directions to call a doctor if they become sick within 21 days. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Federal official: Fever screening at 5 U.S. airports

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL and MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

In Monrovia, Liberia, a man reads a newspaper headlining President Barack Obama's plan to send 3,000 U.S. troops to West Africa to help contain the deadly Ebola virus. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Sierra Leone to shut down for 3 days to slow Ebola

By Clarence Roy-Macaulay - Associated Press

A man that was hired by the community sprays chemicals to try and prevent the spread of the Ebola virus is seen in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as are now known, the World Health Organization said Thursday. A new plan released by the U.N. health agency to stop Ebola also assumes that the actual number of cases in many hard-hit areas may be two to four times higher than currently reported.(AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Ebola arrives in Senegal as outbreak accelerates

By Babacar Dione - Associated Press