I half agree with you. Any year I have not had the "Ebola-like symptoms" of a headache and fever, at least a couple members of my family have had them. The fact that one of our many travelers from Africa has Flu/Malaria/Whatever is not news. The only part that is newsworthy is the pattern that Africans know to lie about their health when traveling here. Even when coming from a country with no known Ebola this year, this kid lied.
The bottom line is that questioning immigrants from Africa is pointless. The only answer is to quarantine away anyone with a passport from or stamped by Sierra Leone, Liberia, or Guinea. Even that is not enough unless we seal our borders against illegals (undocumented democrats), but it's a start.
If the news dept actually did just a tiny bit of research before writing an article pimping the Ebola fear mongering , they would have discovered there are no current Ebola cases in Sudan where this person was from...