If you want to learn more about Ebola, try reading "THE Hot Zone"

The Plague, Albert Camus
Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe
Samuel Pepys' Diary - Plague Extracts
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Great Mortality: an Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
The Great Influenza - John Barry
The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America by Edward Laxton
The Medical Detectives (and anything else by) Berton Roueche