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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

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

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

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

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