Well... you wouldn't laugh if you had it, because you'd be dead, this sort of thing... as silly as it is, is a little TOO silly.
No shit, most people wouldn't laugh getting get kicked in the nethers but other people still laugh at them. Don't worry though, the hurt feelings police are on the way.
It's not really a laughing matter given that doctors and aid workers are getting attacked by locals who do believe that it is the doctors and aid workers spreading the disease. 8 aid workers and journalists were killed in one village in Guinea over this fear.
The mortality rate of this ebola epidemic is estimated to be 70%, so getting ebola isn't exactly the same as getting kicked in the balls.