I couldn't help noticing how quiet the Western media was while the Ebola virus was busily burning through 600 people in West Africa. Funny that, as the story reads like several Hollywood films and lazy talentless journalists love to already have a plot for their usual drivel.

It seems that there is now a risk that the virus might travel outside West Africa, as quarantine has not been successful.

Now it's all over the news, governments are meeting to discuss it and people seem to have started to seriously research a vaccine.

Am I being over cynical in equating all this new coverage and efforts with the fact that somebody white and non African might get sick?