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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, 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

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

Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad impose Ebola travel bans

By DAVID McFADDEN - Associated Press

An ambulance carrying Amber Joy Vinson, the second health care worker to be diagnosed with Ebola in Texas, arrives at Emory University Hospital on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Atlanta. Vinson was one of the nurses who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died at the Dallas hospital last week of the Ebola virus. (AP Photo/David Tulis)

Texas nurse with Ebola flew to Ohio; second case contracted in U.S.

By Emily Schmall and Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

This 2010 photo provided by tcu360.com, the yearbook of Texas Christian University, shows Nina Pham, 26, who became the first person to contract the disease within the United States. Records show that Pham and other health care workers wore protective gear, including gowns, gloves, masks and face shields and sometimes full-body suits when caring for Thomas Eric Duncan. (AP Photo/Courtesy of tcu360.com)

EDITORIAL: Ebola politics

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A man walks past a billboard warning people of the deadly Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. The number of people killed in the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000, the World Health Organization has said. The latest figures show there have been 8,376 cases and 4,024 deaths in the worst-affected West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The news comes as Liberian MPs refused to grant the president additional powers to deal with the Ebola crisis. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

WILLIAMS: Stop Ebola at the border

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)

Liberia children orphaned, ostracized by Ebola

By Krista Larson - Associated Press

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

This undated file image made available by the CDC shows the Ebola virus. (AP Photo/CDC, File)

U.S. to conduct Ebola screening at 5 airports, including Dulles

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Volunteers push cart with a man suspected of having Ebola virus, to a health centre in central area Monrovia, Liberia, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

New concern worldwide as nurse in Spain gets Ebola

By CONNIE CASS and LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

President Obama met with his national security team to discuss the Ebola situation. (AP Photo, Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama weighs additional airport screening in fight against Ebola

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2014, file photo, a Nigerian health official wearing a protective suit waits to screen passengers for the Ebola virus at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. Six months into the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, scientists say they’ve learned more about how the potentially lethal virus behaves and how future outbreaks might be stopped. The first cases of Ebola were reported in Guinea by the World Health Organization on March 23 before spreading to Sierra Leone, Liberia and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Ebola fears prompt calls for travel restrictions between U.S., West Africa

By Stephen Dinan and 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**

After first Ebola case, fears turn to U.S. pandemic preparedness

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

A police car drives past the entrance to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. A patient in the hospital is showing signs of the Ebola virus and is being kept in strict isolation with test results pending, hospital officials said Monday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

First Ebola case confirmed in U.S.: CDC

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Local workers look on as a team or U.S. Navy engineers prepares the ground for a 25-beds medical facility they are building next to the airport in Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday Sept. 27, 2014. Six months into the world's worst-ever Ebola outbreak, and the first to happen in an unprepared West Africa, the gap between what has been sent by other countries and private groups and what is desperately needed is huge. Even as countries try to marshal more resources to close the gap, those needs threaten to become much greater, and possibly even insurmountable. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

WILLIAMS: Ebola crisis is a test case for enlightened self-interest

By Armstrong Williams

In this Sept. 24, 2014 photo, nurse Dalila Martinez, trainer of the Cuban medical team to travel to Sierra Leone, washes her gloved hands during a practice drill at a training camp, in Havana, Cuba. Cuba's health ministry is sending more than 160 health workers to help stop the raging Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in early October. They will stay for six months. (AP Photo/Ladyrene Perez, Cubadebate)

Liberia: Top doctor goes under Ebola quarantine after assistant dies

By Jonathan Paye-Layleh - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Ethiopian President Hailemariam Desalegn to discuss the Ebola epidemic, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 in New York. Seated with Obama are from left are, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, Secretary of State John Kerry, and National Security Adviser Susan Rice. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama urges U.N. to ramp up fight against Ebola epidemic

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times