I would be willing to bet that if Ebola were a frequent issue in a country that had the ability to construct a world-class virus research center, there would be

I would be willing to bet that if Ebola were a frequent issue in a country that had the ability to construct a world-class virus research center, there would be a research center very close to the locations where Ebola had a natural reservoir. No matter how hard you yell it, correlation is not causation (and even when there is causation, the direction of the causation isn't always obvious).