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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 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

FILE : In this Saturday, Oct. 18, file photo a burial team in protective gear bury the body of a woman suspected to have died from Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. The disease has ravaged a small part of Africa, but the international image of the whole continent is increasingly under siege, reinforcing some old stereotypes. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh, File)

Ebola: Africa’s image takes a hit

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - 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

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

A fireman gestures, bottom right, as workers wearing rompers and gloves come out of the entrance of the apartment building of a Spanish nurse infected with Ebola in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Three more people were placed under quarantine for Ebola at a Madrid hospital where the Spanish nurse became infected, authorities said Thursday. More than 50 other possible contacts were being monitored. The nurse, who had cared for a Spanish priest who died of Ebola, was the first case of Ebola being transmitted outside of West Africa, where a months-long outbreak has killed at least 3,500 people and infected at least twice as many. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Sierra Leone strike halts burial of Ebola dead

By Clarence Roy-Macaulay - 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

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

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

During a training session participants listen as they stand over a mannequin on a stretcher during a training course to instruct non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers and doctors on how to deal with the Ebola virus in Brussels on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. The course, provided by Doctors Without Borders, trains volunteer and medical personnel on precautions to take when entering a zone that contains the Ebola virus.(AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

3rd doctor dies from Ebola in Sierra Leone

By Clarence Roy-Macaulay - Associated Press

Health workers with buckets, as part of their Ebola virus prevention protective gear, at an Ebola treatment center in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Liberia's armed forces were given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border from neighboring Sierra Leone, which is closed to stem the spread of Ebola, local newspaper Daily Observer reported Monday. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia: 3 receiving untested Ebola drug improving

By Jonathan Paye-Layleh and John Heilprin - Associated Press

An employee of the Monrovia City Corporation sprays disinfectant inside a government building in a bid to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. U.S. health officials warned Americans not to travel to the three West African countries hit by the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history. The travel advisory issued Thursday applies to nonessential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the deadly disease has killed more than 700 people this year. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

WHO: Ebola moving faster than control efforts

By Boubacar Diallo and Krista Larson - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 28, 2013, after a meeting with, from left, Malawi President Joyce Banda; Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma; and Cape Verde Prime Minister José Maria Pereira Neves. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

3 African leaders cancel trip to U.S. over Ebola outbreak; Obama still plans summit

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows an Ebola virus. (AP Photo/CDC)

Peace Corps evacuates over Ebola as 2 isolated

By Jonathan Paye-Layleh - Associated Press

In this July 15, 2014 photo, the Arwa clinic, center, that was closed after the clinic Doctor got infected by the Ebola virus in the capital city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever that can cause its victims to bleed from the ears and nose, had never before been seen in this part of West Africa where medical clinics are few and far between. The disease has turned up in at least two other countries - Liberia and Sierra Leone - and more than 530 deaths have been attributed to the outbreak that is now the largest on record.(AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

Sierra Leone doctor fighting Ebola catches disease

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In this photo taken on July 8, 2014, Ebola advocacy group Crusaders for Peace, spokesperson Juli Endee, right, educates people on the deadly virus in Paynesville, east of the city Monrovia, Liberia. Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever that can cause its victims to bleed from the ears and nose, had never before been seen in this part of West Africa where medical clinics are few and far between. The disease has turned up in at least two other countries _ Liberia and Sierra Leone _ and 539 deaths have been attributed to the outbreak that is now the largest on record. (AP Photo/Jonathan Paye-Layleh)

Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens; 500+ dead

By Krista Larson - Associated Press

Sierra Leone reports 2 Ebola deaths, 12 cases

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