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In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Coast Guard Health Technician Nathan Wallenmeyer, left, and CBP supervisor Sam Ko conduct prescreening measures on a passenger, right, who arrived from Sierra Leone at O'Hare International Airport's Terminal 5 in Chicago. Canada has joined Australia in suspending entry visas for people from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa in an attempt to keep the deadly disease away. Canada's Conservative government said Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, it is suspending visa applications for residents and nationals of countries with &quot;widespread and persistent-intense transmission&quot; of Ebola virus disease. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Melissa Maraj, File) **FILE**

Amid Ebola scare, Canada restricts visas

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Coast Guard Health Technician Nathan Wallenmeyer, left, and CBP supervisor Sam Ko conduct prescreening measures on a passenger, right, who arrived from Sierra Leone at O'Hare International Airport's Terminal 5 in Chicago. Canada has joined Australia in suspending entry visas for people from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa in an attempt to keep the deadly disease away. Canada's Conservative government said Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, it is suspending visa applications for residents and nationals of countries with &quot;widespread and persistent-intense transmission&quot; of Ebola virus disease. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Melissa Maraj, File) **FILE**

Canada restricts visas amid Ebola scare

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

A Ebola health worker removes rubbish including plastic bottles from the Island Clinic Treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia’s men of God predicted Ebola death toll as God’s punishment for gays

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The 615th Engineer Company, 52nd Engineer Battalion will be deploying approximately 160 engineers to West Africa to help with the fight against Ebola. The soldiers will not be working directly with Ebola patients, but are receiving specific medical training to ensure they are protected from exposure to Ebola. Some of those soldiers were training those skills on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. A line of soldiers hold up their hands to show that they have finished putting on their second layer of gloves. They wear a total of three pairs of gloves. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Jerilee Bennett)

WHO: Number of Ebola-linked cases passes 10,000

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014, file photo, Bellevue Hospital nurse Belkys Fortune, left, and Teressa Celia, Associate Director of Infection Prevention and Control, pose in protective suits in an isolation room, in the Emergency Room of the hospital, during a demonstration of procedures for possible Ebola patients in New York. A doctor who recently returned to New York City from West Africa is being tested for the Ebola virus. The doctor had a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms and was taken Thursday to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

N.Y. and N.J. say they will require Ebola quarantines

By Marilynn Marchione and Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

Soldiers from the 35th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade pack their gear as they prepare for deployment to west Africa to aid against the spread of the Ebola virus in Fort Gordon, Ga., Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle, Michael Holahan)

Ebola guidelines updated as U.S. struggles to control outbreak

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Aug. 12, 2014, file photo, the body of a man found in the street, suspected of dying from the Ebola virus is covered and removed by health workers, in the capital city of Monrovia, Liberia. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh, File)

Nigeria declared Ebola-free; Africa’s most populous nation given all-clear by World Health Org

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A burial team in protective gear carry the body of woman suspected to have died from Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. Saturday, Oct, 18, 2014. The death toll from Ebola will rise this week to more than 4,500 people from the 9,000 infected and the outbreak is still out of control in three West African nations, a top official with the U.N. health agency said (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Canada will send experimental Ebola vaccine to WHO

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Gloves and rubber boots forming part of the Ebola prevention gear for health workers at a clinic are set outside for the sun to dry them after being washed in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Border closures, flight bans and mass quarantines are creating a sense of siege in the West African countries affected by Ebola, officials at an emergency African Union meeting said Monday, as Senegal agreed to allow humanitarian aid pass through its closed borders. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

WHO: Ebola outbreak in Senegal is officially over

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A woman smokes a cigarette during a break from work in downtown Chicago. (Associated Press)

U.N.’s World Health Organization urges global tobacco tax hike

By Drew Johnson and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A tobacco flower waves in a dew-covered field outside Rolesville, N.C., on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Researchers are using a relative of this smoking leaf to grow medicines for the flu and even, perhaps, ebola. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

JOHNSON: The WHO’s secret tobacco tax

By Drew Johnson - The Washington Times

**FILE** The United Nations headquarters building is seen July 27, 2007, in New York. (Associated Press)

JOHNSON: The UN’s health agency works on a global tobacco tax in secret

By Drew Johnson

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

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 health worker sprays the body of a man who is suspected of dying due to the Ebola virus with disinfectant chemicals in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. 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/Abbas Dulleh)

Budget cuts at U.N. health agency stifling Ebola response: report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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