Ebola is a member of a family of RNA viruses known as filoviruses
According to the American Centre for Disease Control first known outbreak of the virus occurred in the then Zaire in 1976. The name takes after the River Ebola.
British medical journal and New England Medical journal places the first outbreak of the virus in Germany in 1967. Named the Marburg Virus (which is what the Zaire outbreak was initially known as), after the German City.
An outbreak of haemorrhaging fever broke out in labs in Marburg and Frankfurt. Lab staff were taken ill followed by the medical personnel who cared for them.
The fourth outbreak of Ebola, after that of in Sudan in 1979, was in Reston USA in 1989. I leave out the role of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and CDC during the Kikwit outbreak.
Looking at the above one cannot come to the conclusion that Ebola is an African disease.
The primary reason for the spread, and rate of spread, of the virus in Africa is Economic. Adoption of IMF sanctioned SAPs and whatnot have led to the hollowing out of health services in most African countries.
African nations need to re-invest in their health institutions, embrace generic drugs and develop the capacity to manufacture generics- I tire when I write this since the Ngilus' of this continent will simply loot and overprice all tenders as she did when in charge (btw. which dog makes Ngilu Mininter for Health???), so end of insha.
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Totally unrelated but you may recall that as late as 1972, the US Government wilfully withheld treatment from black males with syphilis. It didn't matter that they were going to infect their wives or that their children would in all probability have congenital defects or that they, black males, would likely end up dead. 1972.