LET’S HOPE THEY’RE MORE TOGETHER THAN THEY WERE LAST TIME: CDC prepares to join Ebola fight in Africa. “Rollin said the new Ebola vaccine, first shown to be effective during the tail end of the West Africa outbreak in Guinea, will be a critical new tool to fight this outbreak. Health-care workers will be the first to receive the vaccine. Then workers will vaccinate those who have come into contact with the infected, as well as those who have come into contact with the first set of contacts, a practice known as ring vaccination.”

Flashback: CDC multitasking hurts Ebola fight: Disease control shouldn’t extend to playground safety and occupational hazards.