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FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2014 file photo, nurse Nina Pham poses for a photo at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. Pham, who contracted Ebola while caring for the first person in the U.S. diagnosed with the deadly disease, has settled a lawsuit against the parent company of the Dallas hospital where she worked. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Nurse who survived Ebola settles with Texas hospital system

By JAMIE STENGLE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 25, 2015, photo, Ebola survivor Nina Pham walks in a park with her dog Bentley in Dallas. Pham told The Dallas Morning News in the interview that she is preparing to file a lawsuit Monday, March 2, in Dallas County against Texas Health Resources. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Smiley N. Pool)

Nina Pham, nurse who survived Ebola, says hospital failed her; she plans to sue: report

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Nurses union calls on OSHA to mandate ‘optimal’ Ebola gear

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Thomas Eric Duncan (AP Photo/Wilmot Chayee, File)

JUDSON PHILLIPS: Ebola death aftermath: Texas hospital goes wobbly

By Judson Phillips

This 2011 file photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan at a wedding in Ghana. Thirty-eight days after Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola in a local hospital where he died Oct. 8, Dallas calmly marked the end of its Ebola crisis on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, when the last of the 177 people who were being monitored for symptoms of the deadly virus were to be cleared at midnight. (AP Photo/Wilmot Chayee, File)

Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan’s family, hospital reach settlement

By Emily Schmall - Associated Press

This 2011 file photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan at a wedding in Ghana. Thirty-eight days after Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola in a local hospital where he died Oct. 8, Dallas calmly marked the end of its Ebola crisis on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, when the last of the 177 people who were being monitored for symptoms of the deadly virus were to be cleared at midnight. (AP Photo/Wilmot Chayee, File)

Thomas Eric Duncan’s family settles with Texas hospital that sent him home with Ebola: attorney

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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)

New York doctor tests positive for Ebola, had used public transportation

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

AP-GfK Poll: Public wants tighter Ebola screening

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and EMILY SWANSON - Associated Press

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Obama phones Texas hospital workers at center of Ebola outbreak

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Health workers wear protective gears before entering the house of a person suspected to have died of Ebola virus in Port loko Community situated on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. After emerging months ago in eastern Sierra Leone, Ebola is now hitting the western edges of the country where the capital is located with dozens of people falling sick each day, the government said Tuesday. So many people are dying that removing bodies is reportedly a problem. (AP Photo/Michael Duff)

EDITORIAL: A respite from Ebola

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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Ebola victim’s sister says hospital denied request

By Emily Schmall - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson speaks at the Canadian American Business Council in Ottawa, Ontario, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick) ** FILE **

Ebola-country travelers to be funneled to five airports

By Tom Howell Jr. and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Medical staff in protective gear escort Nina Pham, exiting the ambulance, to a nearby aircraft at Love Field, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Dallas. Pham, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, was diagnosed with the Ebola virus after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan who died of the same virus. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Welcome people out of Ebola quarantine, Dallas official urges

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A longtime Democratic operative, Ron Klain was tasked Friday by President Barack Obama with running the government's response to the Ebola crisis. (AP Photo/Revolution)

DAVID KEENE: A new, unimproved Ebola czar

By David Keene - The Washington Times

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

Texas Gov. Perry calls for travel ban due to Ebola

By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press

In this frame grab from video provided by Texas Health Resources, Nina Pham, who contracted Ebola after treating a Liberian man, talks while being recorded at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, before being flown to the National Institutes of Health outside Washington. Pham is shown in the video — posted online by the hospital's parent company — smiling as she sits upright in a hospital bed while a man identified as her treating physician can be heard thanking her for getting well and being part of the volunteer team that took care of the first patient. (AP Photo/Texas Health Resources, Dr. Gary Weinstein)

Nina Pham, first nurse to get Ebola, in ‘high spirits’ at Md. facility

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Dan Varga, chief clinical officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, speaks as Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings looks on at right during a news conference, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Dallas. A second health care worker has tested positive for Ebola. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Second health care worker with Ebola to be transported to Atlanta

By David Sherfinski and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, second from left, speaks to the media about Ebola during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, with members of his team coordinating the government&#8217;s response to the Ebola outbreak including, from left are Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama says Feds to become ‘much more aggressive’ about Ebola

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times