Ebola did seem remote, but with a potential pandemic, a great deal of the worry is that it will infect so many people that it won't be practical to stop it so worry a lot about the infection rate. If something like that popped up in a western nation, the health system is more likely to be able to head it off. Africa is the opposite. It would hit 10 million people, and people would still be trying to fix it with crushed bone from some poor albino. I think I also remember the symptoms being like vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding out. Not a pleasant way to go.