Dominique Faget, AFP/Getty ImagesA girl walks past a slogan painted on a wall reading "Stop Ebola" in Monrovia, Liberia, on Aug. 31.
Alex Wong / Getty ImagesNina Pham participates during a news briefing as Pham's mother Diana (4th L) and sister Cathy (2nd L), and Director of NIH Clinical Center John Gallin (L) look on at the National Institutes of Health October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland.- Pablo Blazquez Dominguez, Getty ImagesMedical workers wearing protective clothing arrive Oct. 8 at an apartment building where a Spanish nurse who has tested positive for the Ebola virus lives in Alcorcon, near Madrid, Spain.
- Jewel Samad, AFP-Getty ImagesA journalist speaks on his phone in front of street art on a wall next to the closed The Gutter bowling alley on Oct. 24, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York, where doctor Craig Spencer bowled before being quarantined at the Bellevue Hospital after testing positive for Ebola.
- Mike Stone, Getty ImagesPolice officers stand outside an apartment where a second person diagnosed with the Ebola virus resides on Oct. 12 in Dallas, Texas.
- Joe Raedle / Getty ImagesMembers of a cleaning company work on sanitizing the apartment where Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was staying in Dallas.
- Bryan Thomas, Getty ImagesA New York City police officer stands at the entrance to Bellevue Hospital in New York City on Oct. 23, 2014. Dr. Craig Spencer has tested positive for Ebola, the first case in NYC, and is quarantined at Bellevue.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesPeople watch police depart after driving out an Ebola burial team who had come to collect the bodies of four people who had died overnight in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA crowd enters the grounds of an Ebola isolation center in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia. A mob of several hundred people opened the gates and took out the patients, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesMembers of Liberia's Ebola Task Force enforce a quarantine on the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia. The military began enforcing a quarantine on West Point, a congested favela of 75,000, fearing a spread of the Ebola epidemic in the capital city.
- AFP/Getty ImagesAn MSF medical worker, wearing protective clothing relays patient details and updates behind a barrier to a colleague at an MSF facility in Kailahun. Kailahun along with Kenama district is at the epicenter of the world's worst Ebola outbreak.
- Dominique Faget, AFP/Getty ImagesA Liberian police officer stands guard on Sept. 6 in Monrovia's West Point slum.
- Daniel Kramer / Reuters PhotoPassengers disembark from the Carnival Magic cruise ship after it reached port in Galveston, Texas October 19, 2014. The Carnival Magic arrived on Sunday after a week-long trip with a Dallas hospital lab worker on board who spent much of the cruise in isolation after possible exposure to Ebola.
- Leon Neal, AFP/Getty ImagesDr. Michael Jacobs, Clinical Lead in Infectious Diseases, speaks to members of the media during a briefing on the ongoing treatment of Ebola patient William Pooley at the Royal Free Hospital in north London on Aug. 26.
- Dominique Faget, AFP/Getty ImagesWomen stop to clean their hands with a sanitiser before entering the John Fitzgerald Kennedy hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 1.
- Dominique Faget, AFP/Getty ImagesA health worker burns contaminated items inside the high-risk area on Sept. 7 at Elwa hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA burial team from the Liberian health department sprays disinfectant over the body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia.
- Kena Betancur, Getty ImagesAn Ebola warning poster is seen inside the Bellevue Hospital where Dr. Craig Spencer, who was diagnosed with the Ebola disease, remains in quarantine, on October 25, 2014 in New York City.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA public restroom awaits visitors in Monrovia, Liberia. With a population of 75,000 people in a small area with poor sanitation, sickness is common in the township.
- Joe Raedle, Getty ImagesKarsiah Duncan, center, the son of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, leaves after speaking to the media at the Wilshire Baptist Church on Oct. 7 in Dallas, Texas.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA Liberian army soldier assigned to the Ebola Task Force enforces a quarantine on Aug. 23 in Dolo Town, Liberia.
- Nathan Hunsinger / MCTCleaners in hazmat suits unload barrels for cleaning Amber Vinson's home in The Village apartment complex in Dallas. Vinson is the third person in Dallas to contract Ebola.
- Florian Plaucheur, AFPGetty ImagesVolunteers in protective suits carry for burial the body of a person who died from Ebola in Waterloo, Liberia, on Oct. 7.
- Michael Duff / APAn empty area outside an Ebola virus recovery ward in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization says officials are now focused on ending the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak rather than just slowing the virus' spread.
- Spencer Platt / Getty ImagesDr. Craig Spencer greets some of the Bellevue staff members who treated him after he was diagnosed with Ebola.
- Jim Bourg, ReutersA protester holds a sign in favor of a travel ban to stop the spread of the Ebola virus, in front of the White House in Washington.
- JOHN SPINK / Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionMedical workers roll patient Nancy Writebol, the second American aid worker infected with Ebola, into Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
- KIM KYUNG-HOON, ReutersA quarantine official stands behind a banner notifying to incoming passengers from West Africa's Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreak countries to use a specific lane for quarantine check at an arrival terminal of the Beijing Capital International Airport.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA Liberian burial team wearing protective clothing loads the body of a 60-year-old Ebola victim after retrieving him from his home near Monrovia, Liberia.
- Stewart F. House, Getty ImagesDallas County Judge Clay Jenkins answers questions at a press conference on October 15, 2014, in Dallas, Texas.
- Stewart F. House / Getty ImagesEmergency vehicles escort an ambulance on the tarmac at Love Field Airport. The ambulance had reportedly delivered Amber Vinson, a health care worker, to an air ambulance.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesPublic health advocates stage an Ebola awareness and prevention event in Monrovia, Liberia.
- Dominique Faget, AFP/Getty ImagesRev. Joseph G. Johnson delivers a speech on the Ebola virus during Sunday Mass at the Restoration Baptist Church in Monrovia, Liberia, on Aug. 31.
- Andrew Burton, Getty ImagesA nurse listens Oct. 26 at a press conference at New York City's Bellevue Hospital regarding the ongoing situation with Dr. Craig Spencer, who is being treated after contracting Ebola while working with Doctors Without Borders in West Africa.
- Sia Kambou, AFP/Getty ImagesA man reads a poster raising awareness of the Ebola virus reading "the risk Ebola is still there. Let us apply the protective measures together" on Aug. 24 in Abidjian, Ivory Coast.
- Michelle Nichols/ReutersU.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Power gets her temperature taken at John F. Kennedy airport in New York.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA man who was showing symptoms of possible Ebola listens as UNICEF health workers speak about Ebola prevention in New Kru Town, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA Liberian health worker disinfects a corpse after the man died in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward in Monrovia, Liberia.
- Getty ImagesLiberian Red Cross health workers wearing protective suits carry the body of a victim of the Ebola virus out of a garage.
- Mark Wilson, Getty ImagesJeff Hulbert of Annapolis, Maryland, holds up a sign in front of the White House on October 24, 2014, in Washington, D.C. Hulbert is protesting for a mandatory quarantine for people that have returned from Ebola affected countries.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA staffer for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), stands in protective clothing in the high risk area of the new MSF Ebola treatment center near Monrovia, Liberia.
- Susana Vera, ReutersExcalibur, the dog of the Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola, stands on her apartment's balcony in Alcorcon, outside Madrid, on Oct. 8.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA resident washes his hands in chlorinated water at a public bathroom in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA member of the Church of Aladura prays on the beach in Monrovia, Liberia. He and other church members were praying for God to rescue Liberia from its current crisis.
- Tanya Bindra / AP file photoIn this Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 file photo, healthcare workers load a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus onto an ambulance in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
- Stewart F. House / Getty ImagesClinical Director of Texas Health Resources Dr. Daniel Varga stands ready to answer questions at a press conference at the Dallas County Commissioners Court on October 15, 2014 in Dallas, Texas.
- Jewel Samad, AFP-Getty ImagesPolice stand in front of the gate of The Gutter bowling alley in Brooklyn, New York, on October 24, 2014. Doctor Craig Spencer visited the bowling alley before being Quarantined at the Bellevue Hospital after testing positive for Ebola.
- Prakash Mathema, AFP/Getty ImagesA Nepalese health worker inspects an arriving passenger with an infrared thermometer for signs of fever, one of the symptoms of Ebola, at a health desk at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu on Aug. 20.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesPublic health advocates stage street theater to attract people to attend an Ebola awareness and prevention event in Monrovia, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA Liberian Army soldier, part of the Ebola Task Force, beats a local resident while enforcing a quarantine on the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesWorkers prepare the new Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center near Monrovia, Liberia. The facility initially has 120 beds, making it the largest such center for Ebola treatment and isolation in history, and MSF plans to expand it to a 350-bed capacity.
- Photo for The Washington Post by Tanya BindraA member of a hospital burial team digs the grave Nov. 2 of a small child who had died of Ebola earlier that day in Ganta, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesPeople watch as a crowd protests before entering the grounds of an Ebola isolation center in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia. A mob of several hundred people, chanting, "No Ebola in West Point," opened the gates and took out the patients, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA sick woman waits in an ambulance to be admitted to a newly-opened Ebola isolation center set up in a school by the Liberian health ministry, which was closed due to the epidemic.
- Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesA convoy carrying a nurse, who has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus, arrives at The Royal Free hospital in London, England, on Dec. 30.
- Mike Stone, Getty ImagesA second Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital healthcare worker has tested positive for Ebola.
- Carl De Souza / AFP/Getty ImagesMedecins Sans Frontieres medical staff members wearing protective clothing treat the body of an Ebola victim at their facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on Aug. 14, 2014.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesHanah Siafa lies with her daughter Josephine, 10, while hoping to enter the new Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center on in Monrovia, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesThree-year-old Nino sits in a newly-opened Ebola isolation center set up by the Liberian health ministry in a closed school in Monrovia, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesUmu Fambulle stands over her husband Ibrahim after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola ward in Monrovia, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA crowd protests before entering the grounds of an Ebola isolation center in the West Point slum.
- Jessica McGowan / Getty Images 2014The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesPeople walk through the West Point favella in Monrovia, Liberia.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA Liberian health worker speaks with families in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID.
- Andrew H. Walker / Getty ImagesPresident Obama asked former White House adviser Ron Klain to serve as Ebola "czar" on Friday, October 17.
- Alex Wong / Getty ImagesNina Pham speaks during a news briefing at the National Institutes of Health October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland. Pham, who was first diagnosed with Ebola on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday.
- Zoom Dosso, AFP/Getty ImagesA picture taken on July 24 shows protective gear including boots, gloves, masks and suits, drying after being used in a treatment room in the ELWA hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia.
- Francisco Leong/AFP/Getty ImagesA picture taken Nov. 7 shows people walking past a billboard with a message about ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
- Mike Stone, Getty ImagesNo trespassing signs and warning tape mark the apartment Oct. 12 where a second person diagnosed with the Ebola virus--identified as nurse Nina Pham--resides in Dallas, Texas.
- Eduardo Munoz, ReutersNYPD officers stand guard in front of the building where Dr. Craig Spencer lives in New York.
- Spencer Platt, Getty ImagesPolice keep members of the media and others back from the closed Brooklyn bowling alley that New York City's first Ebola patient visited before showing symptoms of the virus. Dr. Craig Spencer, a member of Doctors Without Borders, recently visited the Williamsburg bowling alley The Gutter.
- Chip Somodevilla, Getty ImagesMayor Mike Rawlings speaks during a news conference about the recent Ebola infections at the Dallas County Administration Building on Oct. 20 in Dallas, Texas.
- JOEL PAGE, ReutersNurse Kaci Hickox joined by her boyfriend Ted Wilbur speak with the media outside of their home in Fort Kent, Maine
- John Moore, Getty ImagesThe body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus lies on her bed after being sprayed with disinfectant.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesPackets of food are delivered to a newly-opened Ebola isolation center set up by the Liberian health ministry in a closed school.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA mother and child stand atop their mattresses in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward in Monrovia, Liberia.
- Florian Plaucheur, AFPGetty ImagesVolunteers pick up bodies of people who died of the Ebola virus Oct. 8 in Freetown, Liberia.
- BAZ RATNER/ReutersSierra Leonean doctors practice wearing protective clothing in the Ebola Training Academy in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
- Florian Plaucheur, AFPGetty ImagesVolunteers in protective suits bury the body of a person who died from Ebola in Waterloo, Liberia, on Oct. 7.
- John Stillwell/APA general view of the Royal Free Hospital where a female healthcare worker who contracted the Ebola virus is being treated in London on Dec. 30
- Florian Plaucheur, AFPGetty ImagesVolunteers arrive to pick up bodies of people who died of the Ebola virus Oct. 8 in Freetown, Liberia.
- Chip Somodevilla, Getty ImagesFirst responders wear full biohazard suits while responding to the report of a woman with Ebola-like symptoms at the Dallas Area Rapid Transit White Rock Station on October 18 in Dallas, Texas.
- Mike Stone / Getty ImagesA flyer notifying area residents that a person living in the area has been diagnosed with Ebola hangs on the door of an apartment at The Village Bend East complex on Oct. 15.
- Danny Lawson/APMedical staff at Glasgow airport in Scotland in protective gear transport a healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola during her transfer to the Royal Free Hospital in London on Dec. 30.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesPublic health advocates play music to attract people for an Ebola awareness and prevention event in Monrovia, Liberia. The Liberian government and international groups are trying to convince residents of the danger and are urging people to wash their hands to help prevent the spread of the epidemic.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA man lies in a newly-opened Ebola isolation center set up by the Liberian health ministry in a closed school.
- Alex Wong / Getty ImagesDirector of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci leaves with Nina Pham, the nurse who was infected with Ebola, after a news briefing at National Institutes of Health October 24, 2014 in Bethesda, Maryland. Pham, who first diagnosed on October 12, was declared free of the virus on Friday.
- Ahmed Jallanzo / European Pressphoto AgencyNurses disinfect the body of a suspected Ebola victim outside an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia.
- Washington Post photo by Michel du CilleWorkers for Liberia's Ministry of Health remove the dead body of a man who died Saturday in the New Kru Town neighborhood in Monrovia, Liberia.
- Bryan Thomas, Getty ImagesA young man, dressed in a biohazard costume, stands on the corner of 546 West 147th Street on October 25, 2014, in New York City.
- John Moore, Getty ImagesA very sick Saah Exco, 10, lies in a back alley of the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia. He was one of the patients that was pulled out of a holding center for suspected Ebola patients when the facility was overrun by a mob on August 16.
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An American missionary doctor working in Liberia has tested positive for the Ebola virus after working with obstetrics patients at a missionary hospital in Monrovia, the church-affiliated organization SIM USA said on Tuesday.
The Charlotte, North Carolina-based group did not identify the physician but said he was not treating Ebola patients and isolated himself immediately when symptoms began. He was later transferred to an Ebola isolation unit on the group’s 136-acre campus in Monrovia.
“The doctor is doing well and is in good spirits,” SIM USA said in a statement. “It is not yet known how the doctor contracted the virus specifically,” it added.
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