Could Ebola virus be classed under just any other virus?

A person’s predisposition and understanding of pain and sickness can dramatically alter his or her experience of it. The human body is a world on its own. One person will respond quite differently to a sudden blow to the face than will a professional boxer, who is paid a huge purse to undergo fifteen rounds of pummeling. The medical community now freely admits that in larger sense a person’s attitude is one of the chief factors in determining the effect of all suffering, pain or dis-ease.
Friends in Ghana, Sierra Leon, and Nigeria still affected, not infected, by the Ebola virus Face-booked with me saying that they hadn’t had the pleasure of seeing any of the virus’ victims yet. Well, all of them live in cloisters though. Could it be because of the Germ Theory or is it just that they are blessed or tidy enough? Like AIDS and other diseases, is it the way we, as Africans, respond to or our attitude towards DISEASE, because we definitely aren’t weaker.
Some source felicitously observes that, “Sometimes it is more important to know what kind of fellah has a germ than what kind of germ has a fellah.” One would think that this is all just quackery or call it bluff, but yet again, others believe the fact a person’s mentality or mental disposition toward illness or disease matters in this case.