Good/Bad News

The ebola outbreak is of a great deal of concern.

The lifesaving treatment appears to just save your life, it doesn't (at this time appear to) save you from the aftermath any survivor suffers.

That's the bad news.

The vaccine they're experimenting with appears to actually work.  There's some caveats but it does work on two strains, that should provide the groundwork for other strains as well.

This NY(S)Times article from a while back kind of explains why a vaccine took so long.

The crux of the long delay in making a vaccine seems to boil down to, "It's happening a long way from here to people we don't know or care about."

Now that it's looking to be increasingly likely that it can happen here and to someone we know and care about... suddenly there's money for research and results have been happening.

That's actually good news.

Fingers crossed.

Aesop has a LOT more on the topic, and it's not a fun, optimistic, sunny read.

I'm the sunny optimist here.