It doesn't surprise me one bit, but I haven't noticed these news trends, as I've been following the Ebola outbreak since it first surfaced. I never had any concern about Ebola gaining traction in the US, because the methods of transmission for the current strains of Ebola are ideal for social clime of countries in Western Africa (much more sharing of resources, skin-to-skin contact is fairly common, etc.). As in, the idea is not that some virus is so strong it can be transmitted willy-nilly, but that the virus has developed to be more transmissible in it's current environment. How the west discusses events in Africa and treated it's people either as pity cases, statistics or ripe fodder for inevitable genocide has always disgusted me. I am not terribly well versed in the geopolitical history of Africa, I've done some research, but I'm actually looking forward to really digging in. Starting here.