1) Implying a cluster of 54 countries are all homogeneous, have poor health standard, etc
2) "Struggles to provide any clean water to humans at all" - this is much more heresy than fact. Please rely on statistics
African countries by no means are world superpowers, but this comment is pretty ignorant. Please think twice about such comments, they can be interpreted as offensive
Additionally, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_in_Sierra_Leone opens with "Water supply in Sierra Leone is characterized by limited access to safe drinking water."
The parent made no statement that all of Africa is so limited, only that the outbreak was in Africa. The countries most affected by the outbreak were correctly described.
I think it is instructive that ebola has not spread to the more developed areas of Africa in 30 years. Compare to AIDS, which also originated in Africa and rapidly spread into cities worldwide.