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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)

New Ebola case reported in Liberia, weeks after nation declared virus-free

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

People display a representation of the Liberian flag as they celebrate Liberia being an Ebola free nation in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, May 11, 2015. Liberians are gathering in the streets of the capital to celebrate the end of the Ebola epidemic in this West African country. Monday's festivities come after the World Health Organization declared over the weekend that Liberia was finally Ebola-free. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

NIH teams with Liberia for study of Ebola survivors

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This undated colorized transmission electron micrograph image made available by the CDC shows an Ebola virus virion. For the first time, Ebola has been discovered inside the eyes of a patient months after the virus was gone from his blood, according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, May 7, 2015. (Frederick Murphy/CDC via AP)

WESLEY PRUDEN: A little good news about Ebola

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

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)

Liberia Ebola outbreak to be declared over after yearlong struggle, 4,700 deaths

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, back right, meet with, from left, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Guinean President Alpha Condé, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 15, 2015, to discuss progress made in the international Ebola response. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama: ‘Major progress’ in fight against Ebola

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Margaret Chan, left, and Assistant Director-General of Health Security Keiji Fukuda, right, confer during a news conference after an emergency meeting at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)

Emails: U.N. health agency resisted declaring Ebola emergency

By Maria Cheng and Raphael Satter - Associated Press

A pediatrician uses a syringe to vaccinate a 1-year-old with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine in Northridge, Calif., in this Jan. 29, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

More children at risk of measles in wake of Ebola epidemic

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

Relatives weep as they bury a loved one suspected of dying from the Ebola virus at a new graveyard on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Liberians held a church service Wednesday for families who lost members to Ebola to mark the country’s 99th celebration National Decoration Day, a holiday normally set aside for people to clean up and re-decorate the graves of their lost relatives. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia holds church service for Ebola victims

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH - Associated Press

Obama meets Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, cheers win against Ebola

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, whose country in West Africa has suffered with during the outbreak of the Ebola virus, waits to speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. President Sirleaf meets with President Barack Obama on Friday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Ebola battle far from over

By Jonathan Soch - The Washington Times

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)

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to thank U.S. for Ebola aid during D.C. visit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Outgoing Ebola czar Ron Klain listens as President Barack Obama speaks about the Ebola outbreak response by the U.S. in West Africa, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex in Washington. Obama plans to withdraw most US military troops fighting Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ron Klain, Ebola czar, stepping down: White House

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Nancy Sullivan, chief, Biodefense Research Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks in her office at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., in this Feb. 4, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Twists, turns, eventually lead to promising Ebola vaccine

By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press

Axel Addy, Minister for Industry and Commerce of Liberia, speaks to the media about the impact of Ebola in his country during a news conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Ebola vaccine trial starts in Liberia

By Jonathan Paye-Layleh - Associated Press

In this file photo, just-cut stacks of $100 bills make their way down the production line at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

US loans fueled insider deal, failed power plan in Liberia

By Ronnie Greene and Jonathan Paye-Layleh - Associated Press

A health official takes the temperature of a Malian soccer fan for Ebola Virus ahead of the African Cup of Nations Group D soccer match between Ivory Coast and Guinea at the Estadio de Malabo in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Sierra Leone eases blocks on travel, business as Ebola wanes

By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY - Associated Press

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)

Ebola testing kit appoved by FDA

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times