Yes, the website is THE ONION but even though its satire, there is some truth in it.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/experts-ebola-vaccine-at-least-50-white-people-awa,36580/

Ebola would make a pretty crappy bio weapon and it's not even going to make a dent in the African population because if it's not happening already the locals are going to start murdering and burning the corpses of anyone who looks remotely sniffly.
Monrovia is like an episode of The Walking Dead on a good day, we don't need to use much of our imagination to get an idea of what a panicked Liberian populace would look like.

Jbowyer,
You understand that The Hot Zone is a novel right? It's fiction, like Schindler's Ark and Roots.
This reliance upon fiction as educational material is a big problem, it's made so called "educated" people a liability when it comes to facing real world problems, this is why we have all these superficially plausible "conspiracy" theories flying around with the support of "educated individuals".
Ebola has emerged due to poor hygene and food handling practices in West Africa, the most plausible explanation is that it's spread by bats and primates and has entered the human population via the consumption of the meat of wild animals.

Jay of Melbourne, wrong! It is not a novel at best you are confused, at worst just being a prick. I suggest you start learning more and writing less.

Jay of Melbourne you just annoyed me then but you have to expect this sort of retort when you are being smart. They do not KNOW how people get these viruses. If you read The Hot Zone you would see that the US Army team spent six months trying to find the virus in a large African cave without success. Two people got ebola after visiting the cave so read again buddy!

Ebola is a weapon of war created in the Belgium Congo by the West many year ago along with HIV and other nerve agents.
It was thought then that having such weapons would be a good deterrent but then they never counted on the escape factor did they.