Ebola is quite a terrifying reflection of conditions in some African nations... with proper care and decent health facilities Ebola should be fairly easy to contain, but unfortunately there's such inadequate health infrastructure and little public education, and so much misinformation and mistrust of doctors that it's able to spread.
They're sending infected corpses back to the families to be buried, for crying out loud. Handling an infected body is a very good way to pick up the disease.
Very, very tragic.