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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 20, 2015 AT 9 P.M. EDT (0100 GMT) AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 file photo, a health worker sprays a colleague with disinfectant after working inside a morgue with people suspected of dying from the Ebola virus, in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone. An Associated Press investigation has found that the World Health Organization and other responders faced key obstacles in their efforts to stop the spiraling Ebola outbreak in the summer of 2014 in Kenema, a pivotal seeding point for the virus and a microcosm of the messy response across West Africa. (AP Photo/Tanya Bindra, File)

10 critical mistakes in last year’s Ebola outbreak

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A health worker injects a man with an Ebola vaccine in Conakry, Guinea, on March 7. (Associated Press)

Ebola vaccine: Officials weigh who to vaccinate, how much to stockpile

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert star in Lambert & Stamp, now on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Blu-ray review: Lambert and Stamp

By Joseph Szadkowski - The Washington Times

Biologist Olivier Mbaya works with serum samples in a European study of an experimental Ebola vaccine. (AP)

WESLEY PRUDEN: Ebola decline, vaccine good news from Africa

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

W. SCOTT LAMB: What do we have to offer to a ‘selfie’ culture?

By W. Scott Lamb

Alois Jnabl of Austria exits the water during the men's triathlon ITU World Olympic Qualification Event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. The World Olympic Qualification is a test event for the Rio 2016 Olympics. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

IOC to order tests for viruses at Rio’s Olympic water venues

By STEPHEN WADE and BRAD BROOKS and STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

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

Herve Ladsous of France, chief of UN Peacekeeping Operations, is seen before a meeting in Paris, Thursday, Dec.6, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

DREW JOHNSON: U.N. proves major threat to press freedom

By Drew Johnson

Left to Right: Chris Stamp, Pete Townshend and Kit Lambert

James Cooper: ‘Lambert & Stamp’ film about The Who rock band crew a labor of love

By Eric Althoff - 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

While Ebola is losing its grip on Sierra Leone, major losses of rice production in its wake will soon devastate the country and lead to massive famine without international aid. (associated press)

As Ebola eases, Sierra Leone still struggles to recover

By Alpha Kamara — Special to The Washington Times

U.N. says limit use of personal audio players to 1 hour a day

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

FILE - This handout file photo taken Sept. 2, 2014, provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows A 39-year-old woman, the first participant enrolled in VRC 207, receiving a dose of the investigational NIAID/GSK Ebola vaccine at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors. The evidence is mixed for using infection-fighting antibodies from survivors’ blood for Ebola, but without any licensed drugs or vaccines for the deadly disease, some say it’s worth a shot. (AP Photo/NIAID, File)

Kenya tetanus vaccines void of anti-pregnancy hormones, Catholic group says

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, health workers spray disinfectant around a mosque after the body of a man suspected of dying from the Ebola virus was washed inside before being berried in Bamako, Mali. It all started with a sick nurse, whose positive test results for Ebola came only after death. In a busy clinic that treats Bamako&#8217;s elite as well as wounded U.N. peacekeepers, who was the patient who had transmitted the virus? Soon hospital officials were taking a second look at the case of a 70-year-old man brought to the capital late at night from Guinea suffering from kidney failure. On Friday, Malian health authorities went to disinfect the mosque where the 70-year-old&#8217;s body was prepared for burial - nearly three weeks ago. Already some are criticizing the government for being too slow to react when health authorities had announced his death as a suspected Ebola case earlier in the week.(AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)

WHO outlines six Ebola cases in Mali

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014 file photo, Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses the media during a news conference held in an hotel in Gammarth, northeastern Tunisia. Drugmakers are racing to develop vaccines and drugs to address the worst outbreak of Ebola in history. It's unclear who will pay for their products, but companies are betting that governments and aid groups will foot the bill. (AP Photo/Adel Ben Salah, File)

Officials denounce claims that Kenyan vaccine meant for population control

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

A NGO volunteer receives a dose of experimental vaccine "cAd3-EBOZ Lau" from a nurse at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Jean-Christophe Bott) ** FILE **

Kenya’s Catholic bishops warn tetanus vaccine is ‘disguised population control’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A outside view of the Polyclinique Pasteur clinic where a nurse is suspected of dying from the Ebola virus in the city of Bamako, Mali, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. Malian authorities on Wednesday reported two new deaths from Ebola that are not believed to be linked to the nation's only other known case, an alarming setback as Mali tries to limit the epidemic ravaging other countries in the region. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)

Mali reports three deaths from Ebola; West Africa country borders hard-hit Guinea

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014 photo shows the entrance to the office of World Health Organization in Yangon, Myanmar. The World Health Organization's office, surrounded by an eight-foot high fence and an iron gate, says it is paying around $80,000 a month for its office in this garish mansion in Myanmar's crumbling old capital. With the lifting of most sanctions and the easing of diplomatic pressure after the former pariah state began its transition to democracy, foreign donors, international aid organizations and multinational companies started flooding into the country. That has pushed rents sky-high, some organizations putting up to a $1 million dollars a year into the pockets of former and current generals and cronies. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Aid groups in Myanmar trip over links to elite

By ROBIN McDOWELL - Associated Press