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In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, health care workers load a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus onto an ambulance in Kenema, Sierra Leone. A corpse has tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone, an official said Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, the day after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak over in West Africa. (AP Photo/ Tanya Bindra,File)

Sierra Leone reports new Ebola case

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This undated colorized transmission electron micrograph file image made available by the CDC shows an Ebola virus virion. (Frederick Murphy/CDC via AP, File)

WHO declares end to Ebola transmission in West Africa

By Jamey Keaten and Krista Larson - Associated Press

Guinea was officially declared Ebola-free, almost two years to the day after a toddler there became "Patient Zero," the source of an outbreak that has killed more than 11,000 people, challenged health agencies and tested the responses of governments. (Associated Press)

Ebola proving a persistent foe even as Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone celebrate successes

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 10, 2015 photo, trash litters Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A new round of testing by The Associated Press shows the city’s Olympic waterways are as rife with pathogens far offshore as they are nearer land, where raw sewage flows into them from fetid rivers and storm drains. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

AP test: Rio Olympic water badly polluted, even far offshore

By Brad Brooks - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, dead fish and trash float in the polluted Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio de Janeiro's Olympic organizing committee ruled out conducting viral tests of the human sewage-laden waterways where the 2016 Games' aquatic events will be held, following recommendations from the World Health Organization, Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada said Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Rio 2016: No viral testing of sewage-filled Olympic waters

By JENNY BARCHFIELD - Associated Press

In this Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, file photo a patient undergoes a blood test inside a mobile health care clinic parked in downtown Johannesburg, part of a government campaign to encourage HIV testing. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File) **FILE**

U.N.: HIV patients should start treatment immediately

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

In this Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, photo, health workers take a break at the Kenema Government Hospital, where more than 40 health workers died of Ebola, in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Bungling by U.N. agency hurt Ebola response: AP Investigation

By Maria Cheng and Raphael Satter and Krista Larson - Associated Press

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