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Healio
January 24, 2018
In recently published findings, Rimoin and colleagues documented that some Ebola survivors in the DRC still have antibodies against the virus 40 years after they were infected. The country has experienced eight Ebola outbreaks since the virus was first discovered near the Ebola River in 1976. The latestÃÂ ...
Global News Network
January 23, 2018
The infection is named after the Ebola River located in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The virus hit the shores of Liberia in February of 2014. It was reportedly transported to Liberia from Guinea, a neighboring country of Liberia in West Africa. According to media reports, the disease was initiallyÃÂ ...
Contagionlive.com
December 18, 2017
The first 2 outbreaks of Ebola virus occurred in 1976 in South Sudan and a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), near Africa's Ebola river. What we now know is that fruit bats are the likely natural hosts of the virus, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Humans contract EbolaÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 14, 2017
That outbreak, and another that took place simultaneously in South Sudan, alerted the world to the existence of a lethal new disease, which eventually took the name of the waterway on which Yambuku is situated—the Ebola River. Ebola is famously deadly, but not inevitably so. Around 12 percent of thoseÃÂ ...
Contagionlive.com
November 16, 2017
Ebola virus got its name from the Ebola River in Africa after one of the first outbreaks of the virus occurred within a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the virus spreads to humans from close contact with the blood, secretions, organs orÃÂ ...
The Conversation UK
July 13, 2017
... it was to that hospital that the first case arrived, a school teacher who had become ill after taking his class on a trip down to the Ebola River. As the unfortunate man began to die of haemorrhage and dehydration, the nurses tried to save his life by giving him an injection of the anti-malaria drug chloroquine.
Science Magazine
June 1, 2017
In 1976, the virus emerged suddenly from the jungle a few hundred kilometers northwest of here close to the Ebola River. The then-unknown pathogen tore through a small mission hospital in Yambuku, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and surrounding villages. Victims sufferedÃÂ ...
Voice of America
May 24, 2017
The virus was given the name Ebola because the first recorded outbreak of the disease took place along the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- then known as Zaire -- in 1976. Since then, there have been about 24 Ebola outbreaks in Africa, including one happening now in the DRC.
Reliefweb
May 15, 2017
The virus is named after the Ebola River, where the virus was first recognized in 1976, according to the United States Center for Diseases Control (CDC). Humans can be infected by other humans if they come in contact with body fluids from an infected person or contaminated objects from infected persons.
mySanAntonio.com
May 13, 2017
The World Health Organization has confirmed an Ebola outbreak in a remote forested part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first in that country since 2014. At least nine people are suspected of being infected, and three have died. The outbreak has raised alarms about the possibility of a newÃÂ ...
Healio
May 12, 2017
Ebola is named for Congo's Ebola River, which lies near one of two outbreaks that led to the disease's discovery in 1976. There is no approved vaccine for the virus, but researchers reported recently that an experimental drug was 100% effective at preventing the disease during a ring vaccination trialÃÂ ...
LiveScience.com
October 9, 2014
However, the map was inaccurate, and the Ebola river turned out not to be the closest river to Yambuku, Piot says. "But in our entirely fatigued state, that's what we ended up calling the virus: Ebola." And so Ebola joined the list of viruses named after rivers. Other members include the mosquito-borne RossÃÂ ...
Gizmodo
October 2, 2014
As the New York Times reminds us today, the Health Ministry of Zaire named the Ebola virus after the Ebola River back in 1976. That river is a tributary of the Congo River. Zaire is, of course, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the November 30, 1976 New York Times: The virusÃÂ ...
BBC News
July 17, 2014
Nearly 40 years ago, a young Belgian scientist travelled to a remote part of the Congolese rainforest - his task was to help find out why so many people were dying from an unknown and terrifying disease. In September 1976, a package containing a shiny, blue thermos flask arrived at the Institute of TropicalÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 14, 2017
That outbreak, and another that took place simultaneously in South Sudan, alerted the world to the existence of a lethal new disease, which eventually took the name of the waterway on which Yambuku is situated—the Ebola River. Ebola is famously deadly, but not inevitably so. Around 12 percent of thoseÃÂ ...
Labiotech.eu (blog)
November 13, 2017
Ebola, or Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is caused by infection with an RNA virus that was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in Central ...
Gears Of Biz
November 6, 2017
The disease was first identified in 1976 after two simultaneous attacks, one in a village called Yambuku near the Ebola River, taking its name ...
Tech Times
November 5, 2017
The disease was first identified in 1976 after two simultaneous attacks, one in a village called Yambuku near the Ebola River, taking its name ...
Daisy Cutter
October 28, 2017
Simon Mignolet could no doubt swim up and down the Ebola river and catch nothing more than a chill from the water. All of these defensive ...
teleSUR English
October 24, 2017
The Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River, a small river in the Equateur province. "The experience we have gathered ...
Hawaii News Now
September 27, 2017
The deadly Ebola virus first appeared in 1976, in an African village near the Ebola River, from which it derives its name. The virus is passed ...
The Conversation UK
July 13, 2017
And it was to that hospital that the first case arrived, a school teacher who had become ill after taking his class on a trip down to the Ebola River.
Healio
July 3, 2017
It was the DRC's eighth Ebola outbreak since the virus was discovered near the country's Ebola River in 1976. The country's experience ...
Science Magazine
June 1, 2017
In 1976, the virus emerged suddenly from the jungle a few hundred kilometers northwest of here close to the Ebola River. The then-unknown ...
Voice of America
May 24, 2017
The virus was given the name Ebola because the first recorded outbreak of the disease took place along the Ebola River in the Democratic ...
Reliefweb
May 15, 2017
The virus is named after the Ebola River, where the virus was first recognized in 1976, according to the United States Center for Diseases ...
Healio
May 12, 2017
Ebola is named for Congo's Ebola River, which lies near one of two outbreaks that led to the disease's discovery in 1976. There is no approved ...
Spectator.co.uk
October 23, 2014
The 150-mile long Ebola River is the headstream of the Mongala River in Congo. Picture: Getty. Dot Wordsworth. 25 October 2014. 9:00 AM. 25 October 2014.
Columbus Dispatch
October 12, 2014
... people, including doctors and nurses, dying in an outbreak that had raged for three weeks in remote Yambuku, not far from the Ebola River.
LiveScience.com
October 9, 2014
However, the map was inaccurate, and the Ebola river turned out not to be the closest river to Yambuku, Piot says. "But in our entirely fatigued ...
Gizmodo
October 2, 2014
As the New York Times reminds us today, the Health Ministry of Zaire named the Ebola virus after the Ebola River back in 1976. That river is a ...
BBC News
July 17, 2014
They had a map of Zaire, although not a very detailed one, and the closest river they could see was the Ebola River. From that point on, the ...
Contagionlive.com
December 31, 1999
Ebola virus got its name from the Ebola River in Africa after one of the first outbreaks of the virus occurred within a village in the Democratic ...
MENAFN.COM
August 21, 2017
And it was to that hospital that the first case arrived, a school teacher who had become ill after taking his class on a trip down to the Ebola River.
Business Insider
July 30, 2017
While drinking bourbon one night, the researchers looked at a poorly drawn map and saw the Ebola River nearby. It turned out not to be asÃÂ ...
BusinessGhana
July 19, 2017
Unlike in West Africa prior to the last major outbreak, Ebola is known in the DRC: the Ebola River, where the virus was first discovered, runs 100ÃÂ ...
Awoko
July 19, 2017
Did you know that the Ebola virus got its name from the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Many of you are probably noddingÃÂ ...
Science News for Students
July 18, 2017
The disease gets its name from where the infection was first discovered in 1976 — communities near the Ebola River in what was then knownÃÂ ...
The Conversation UK
July 13, 2017
And it was to that hospital that the first case arrived, a school teacher who had become ill after taking his class on a trip down to the Ebola River.
Healio
July 3, 2017
It was the DRC's eighth Ebola outbreak since the virus was discovered near the country's Ebola River in 1976. The country's experienceÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
June 28, 2017
The "Ebola River," where the virus was first discovered, runs about 60 miles away from the Likati river in north DRC. That doesn't mean that it isÃÂ ...
Science Magazine
June 1, 2017
In 1976, the virus emerged suddenly from the jungle a few hundred kilometers northwest of here close to the Ebola River. The then-unknownÃÂ ...
Voice of America
May 24, 2017
The virus was given the name Ebola because the first recorded outbreak of the disease took place along the Ebola River in the DemocraticÃÂ ...
Healio
May 15, 2017
It is Congo's eighth Ebola outbreak since the virus was discovered near the country's Ebola river in 1976. Congo's last outbreak killed 49ÃÂ ...
Healio
May 12, 2017
Ebola is named for Congo's Ebola River, which lies near one of two outbreaks that led to the disease's discovery in 1976. There is no approvedÃÂ ...
Spectator.co.uk
October 23, 2014
The 150-mile long Ebola River is the headstream of the Mongala River in Congo. Picture: Getty. Dot Wordsworth. 25 October 2014. 9:00 AM. 25 October 2014.
Columbus Dispatch
October 12, 2014
... people, including doctors and nurses, dying in an outbreak that had raged for three weeks in remote Yambuku, not far from the Ebola River.
Gizmodo
October 2, 2014
As the New York Times reminds us today, the Health Ministry of Zaire named the Ebola virus after the Ebola River back in 1976. That river is aÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
March 18, 2017
The name of the viral grouping derives from Ebola River in Republic of the Congo, which was close to where the first case of the virus was detected back in 1976.
Forward
February 10, 2017
Does the author suggest that Julius Evola had somehow a connection to the Ebola River in the Congo? For that is where the disease got its name.
