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Liberian accused of war atrocities faces fraud trial in US

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press

Prosecutors accuse man of atrocities during Liberia conflict

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Illustration on Liberian Independence Day and its history by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Liberia election shows need to reflect on freedom

By Benoni Urey

UN envoy: Liberia’s democratic future hinges of elections

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, right, walks Thursday May 18, 2017 through a densely-populated and heavily congested Monrovia, Liberia, slum community which was quarantined in 2014 when Ebola struck there killing dozens. This is Price's first visit outside the US since assuming the position. (AP Photo/Jonathan Paye-Layleh)

US health secretary visits Liberia, where Ebola killed 4,800

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH - Associated Press

This image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a photomicrograph of Neisseria meningitidis. A contagious bacterial infection appears to be the cause of at least some cases in a mysterious outbreak in Liberia, U.S. health officials said Monday, May 8, 2017. The U.S. CDC tested samples from four of the deceased people and found the bacteria, called Neisseria meningitidis. The bacteria is to blame for a “meningitis belt” in sub-Saharan Africa that passes close to Liberia. (James Volk/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)

Bacteria appears to be behind mysterious outbreak in Liberia

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

EXCHANGE: War didn’t break Quincy surgeon’s desire to learn

By MATT DUTTON - Associated Press

In this photo taken Friday, March. 31, 2017, Children walk past JFK Medical centre in Monrovia, Liberia. Ebola centers. The trauma of the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 11,300, has left many survivors fighting a mental health battle to focus on the present, after witnessing drawn-out deaths and whole communities torn apart. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

After Ebola, Liberians slowly embrace mental health care

By CARLEY PETESCH and JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH - Associated Press

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)

Ebola worker dies after childbirth as husband blames stigma

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

1 woman is using food as a tool to preserve history

By LILLIA CALLUM-PENSO - Associated Press

First woman leader of Liberia is laid to rest in Ohio

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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

This Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 photo, shows Dr. Kent Brantly, who was infected with Ebola in Liberia, in Fort Worth, Texas. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that Brantly returned to practicing medicine about a year ago. He now practices medicine and teaches young doctors at JPS Health Network, where he said some patients recognize him and bring up his battle of more than two years ago. (Rodger Mallison/Star-Telegram via AP)

US doctor who survived Ebola returns to practicing medicine

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In this Feb. 25, 2015, Ebola survivor Nina Pham walks her dog Bentley in Dallas. Ebola no longer dominates the headlines, but for an estimated 17,000 survivors of the largest Ebola outbreak in history the struggle is not over. Many who survived the West African outbreak that sickened nearly 30,000 people between 2014 and 2016 are living with a constellation of long-term symptoms known as post-Ebola syndrome. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Ebola survivors fight reminders like blindness, epilepsy

By SEEMA YASMIN - Associated Press

"Lives are being lost, the public's safety is at risk, and American families are suffering," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. "It cannot continue." (Associated Press)

State Department thwarts deportations to appease illegal immigrant criminals’ home countries

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE-In this Saturday, March 7, 2015 file photo, health workers prepare to collect the ashes of people that died due to the Ebola virus at a crematorium on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. As Liberia marks the second anniversary Wednesday of its first confirmed Ebola cases, many neighbors say they want to see the crematorium torn down so they can try to forget that terrible time. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh, File)

Probe of Ebola flareup in Liberia widens; woman traveled from Guinea after husband died

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A health worker, center, takes the temperature of people to see if they might be infected by the Ebola virus inside the Ignace Deen government hospital in Conakry, Guinea, Friday March 18, 2016. The World Health Organization deployed specialists to southeast Guinea on Friday after two new Ebola cases were confirmed. The cases were announced just hours after Sierra Leone heralded the end of its recent Ebola flare-up, again dashing hopes that the deadly disease was gone from West Africa. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

DHS: Foreign nationals from Ebola-affected countries can stay 6 more months

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Guinea was officially declared Ebola-free, almost two years to the day after a toddler there became "Patient Zero," the source of an outbreak that has killed more than 11,000 people, challenged health agencies and tested the responses of governments. (Associated Press)

Ebola proving a persistent foe even as Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone celebrate successes

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A worker from a Moroccan health screening team dressed in protective gear directs passengers at the arrivals hall of the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca on Oct 9. (Associated Press)

Ebola quarantines remain after outbreak fades, leaving travelers to negotiate web of rules

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. health authorities have worked feverishly with drug companies to come up with an Ebola vaccine after last year's outbreak. (Associated Press)

Ebola vaccine studies progress as marketing quells suspicions of modern medicine

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times