Ebola (river)

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Ebola
Course of the Mongala and Ebola (slightly above the center of the picture)

Course of the Mongala and Ebola (slightly above the center of the picture)

Data
location Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congo Democratic RepublicDemocratic Republic of Congo 
River system Congo
Drain over Mongala  → Congo  → Atlantic
muzzle Dva coordinates: 3 ° 19 ′ 22 "  N , 20 ° 57 ′ 30"  O 3 ° 19 ′ 22 "  N , 20 ° 57 ′ 30"  E

length around 200 km
Drain MQ
 320 m³ / s

Ebola is the name of a small tributary of the Mongala that flows into the South Atlantic via the Congo .

course

The Ebola River meanders through the dense forest of North Ubangi Province in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It flows exclusively through the DRC and at the confluence forms the Mongala, a right tributary of the Congo.

Ebola fever

He became known for the Ebola fever that first appeared on its banks . In this region, the often fatal fever was discovered in 1976 by Belgian scientists. A Catholic mission hospital was located by the river in the village of Yambuku , where the first known outbreak of the disease occurred in 1976. That is why the virus was named after the river.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ebola in the Congo: more than just a virus , Deutsche Welle Online, accessed on October 9, 2014
  2. ↑ : Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976. In: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Volume 56, Number 2, 1978, pp. 271-293, PMID 307456 , PMC 2395567 (free full text).