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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

** FILE ** Talia Eisenberg, co-founder of the Henley Vaporium, uses her vaping device in New York, Feb. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

World Health Organization wants regulators to ban the word ‘e-cigarette’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

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

Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, Connecticut Democrat, delivers an emotional speech Tuesday on Capitol Hill about passing the farm bill, which also funds food stamps. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Testing the limits of ‘sin’ and making it pay

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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

This Thursday, May 10, 2012 photo shows Truvada pills and a bottle in San Francisco. Truvada, a drug hailed as a lifesaver for many people infected by HIV is at the heart of a rancorous debate among gay men, AIDS activists and health professionals over its potential for protecting uninfected men who engage in gay sex without using condoms. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

WHO urges healthy gay men to take HIV prevention drugs, cites ‘exploding epidemics’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

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

Leaked WHO doc reveals global group to label e-cigs the same as regular

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

LSU's Kurt McCune (39) reacts after getting the last out against Florida and defeating them 2-0 during the ninth inning at the Southeastern Conference NCAA college baseball tournament on Sunday, May 25, 2014, in Hoover, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

10 things to know about NCAA baseball tournament

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 8, 2014 file photo, a wood stove heats a home in Freeport, Maine. Wood-burning stoves have ignited a debate between the Obama administration and South Dakota lawmakers who oppose new regulations that would require more efficiency from an iconic feature of many rural homes. South Dakota Sen. John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem oppose the rules. The Republicans argue that any new requirements will have a disproportionate impact on South Dakotans, particularly rural residents. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

EPA to give grants to fight cooking stove pollution

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

A Muslim pilgrim wears a surgical mask to help prevent infection from a respiratory virus known as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday May, 13, 2014. Saudi health authorities reported another five deaths Tuesday from MERS that has sickened hundreds and killed over 150 people. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

World Health Organization: MERS isn’t an emergency

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Pakistan: Polio vaccine a must for exit travelers

Associated Press

Dramatic improvement in controlling Ebola outbreak

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

Missouri’s tax cut: 4 things to know

By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press

A Pakistani health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Pakistan’s health minister says the country is taking extra ordinary measures to meet the new situation it is going to face after polio travel restrictions. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan bracing for polio travel restrictions

By ASIF SHAHZAD - Associated Press

FILE-- In this file photo dated Wednesday April 24, 2013, a Somali child receives a polio vaccine, at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. In an announcement Monday May 5, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) says the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease and could ultimately unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate it, describing the ongoing polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an &quot;extraordinary event&quot; requiring a coordinated international response.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, FILE)

UN: Spread of polio now a world health emergency

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press