Perhaps. Perhaps not. On one hand: No better place to study it. On the other hand: No worse place to study it.
There’s no reason they can’t transport an adequate field clinic to Africa to study this disease.
It’s not like we haven’t done so with military endeavors.
If it gets loose and infects wild pigs (because there aren’t any of those in the SE, are there...?) we’re screwed. It will circulate to/from them to humans indefinitely.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html
summary:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28610112