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Illustration on the history of Liberia by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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James Harris, the widower of Salome Karwah, and his children poses for a photographs outside his house in Monrovia, Liberia. Thursday March. 2, 2017. Salome Karwah survived Ebola after it killed both her parents and eight other relatives, then returned to her clinic to help countless others as she had become immune to the deadly virus. But in a heartbreaking reminder of just how strong fear remains, she died after childbirth complications as her husband says health workers in Liberia were too afraid to touch her. She was just 31. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
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James Harris, the widower of Salome Karwah, feeds his child outside his house in Monrovia, Liberia. Thursday March. 2, 2017. Salome Karwah survived Ebola after it killed both her parents and eight other relatives, then returned to her clinic to help countless others as she had become immune to the deadly virus. But in a heartbreaking reminder of just how strong fear remains, she died after childbirth complications as her husband says health workers in Liberia were too afraid to touch her. She was just 31. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
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Ebola health workers spray disinfectant on a road near the home of a 17-year-old boy that died from the Ebola virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)
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In this file photo taken on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, health workers carry a body of a person that they suspected died from the Ebola virus to a new graveyard on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The corpse of a 17-year-old man has tested positive for Ebola in Liberia, but no other cases have been reported, the country's deputy health minister said late Monday, June 29, 2015. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh,File)
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Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, Liberia, on Sept. 30, 2014. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, center, has her temperature taken by a Chinese soldier, left, before the opening of a new Ebola virus clinic sponsored by China, in Monrovia, Liberia. Liberia’s president says the country must and will get to zero Ebola cases. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made the comment Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, while appearing at an Armed Forces Day celebration. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh, File)
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A woman is injected by a health care worker, left, as she takes part in an Ebola virus vaccine trial, at one of the largest hospital's Redemption hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. A large-scale human trial of two potential Ebola vaccines got under way in Liberia's capital Monday, part of a global effort to prevent a repeat of the epidemic that has now claimed nearly 9,000 lives in West Africa. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
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Ebola health care workers carry the body of a man suspected of dying from the Ebola virus in a small village Gbah on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. A U.N. peacekeeper who contracted Ebola in Liberia will be flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman said Friday. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)
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Nine-year-old Nowa Paye is escorted to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, located about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia, one of the hardest-hit countries in the current disease epidemic. (associated press)
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Liberians election workers watch as a voter washes her hands before casting her votes, during the senate election in Monrovia, Liberia. Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014. Health workers manned polling stations across Liberia on Saturday as voters cast their ballots in a twice-delayed Senate vote that has been criticized for its potential to spread the deadly Ebola disease. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
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A health worker sprays disinfectant onto a college after they worked with the body of a man, suspected of contracting and dying form the Ebola virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) ** FILE **
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Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said that new restrictions travelers from West African countries impacted by Ebola will require the cooperation of airlines, which will have to funnel passengers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in to one of five U.S. airports. (Associated Press)
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Ebola has killed more than 2,000 people in Liberia, one of the hardest-hit nations in the ongoing world health crisis. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are the only remaining African countries still fighting the disease after the WHO declared Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation, free of the virus. Spain and the U.S. are the only other two world nations dealing with cases. (associated press)
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Soldiers from the 36th Engineer Brigade practice how to put on protective clothing and gloves during a training session at Fort Hood, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. The brigade is set to deploy to Liberia as part of Operation United Assistance where they will be building temporary medical facilities in helping the country fight the Ebola virus outbreak. The 450 soldiers from the brigade will be among the first to be deployed from Fort Hood to Liberia. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Kin Man Hui)
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An ambulance transports Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, to the Nebraska Medical Center's specialized isolation unit Monday, Oct 6, 2014 in Omaha, Neb., where he will be treated for the deadly disease. Mukpo is an American video journalist who was working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC News when he became ill last week. (AP Photo/Omaha World-Herald, Ryan Soderlin) MAGS OUT TV OUT
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AP10ThingsToSee - Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday Sept. 30, 2014. Three members of District 13 ambulance service traveled to the village to pickup six suspected Ebola sufferers that had been quarantined by villagers. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Health workers in protective gear load the body of a woman suspected of dying from the Ebola virus, into a pickup truck near the area of Freeport in Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014. The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. has been confirmed in a man who recently traveled from Liberia to Dallas. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
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Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia,Tuesday Sept. 30, 2014. Three members of District 13 ambulance service traveled to the village to pickup six suspected Ebola sufferers that had been quarantined by villagers. Aid donations are still inadequate, as the international community tries to increase the ability to care for the spiraling number of people infected with the disease which has hit Liberia the hardest. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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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)
