Ebola-Chan fanart, Ebola virus, Ebola-Chan cosplay

What do you think about Marcus' and Singer's claim that "Ebola could be electronically tamed as Ebola-chan?" (352)

Is this true?
How does Ebola-chan further the collective identity or memetic behavior of 4-chan? (aka Why not Ebola-the-hunky-guy?)

Differences between chan-ing an infectious disease vs. a person?

A line I found interesting from the text was:
"These social developments are significant for reshaping forms of humor, yet a consistent role of visual jokes is that they serve to ‘defy the moral discourse of the media, provide pleasure of boundary transgression, and block feelings of involvement’ (Kuiper, 2005: 77)."

Are memes subverting more gatekeeping modes of media? Or is the satire lost through the constant repetition?