Yambuku
| Yambuku | |||
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| Coordinates | 2 ° 49 ′ N , 22 ° 13 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Democratic Republic of Congo | ||
| Mongala | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-MO | ||
| founding | 1932 | ||
Yambuku is a small village and a mission station in the Mongala province in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo about 1000 km north of the capital Kinshasa, about 100 km south of the Ebola .
The first known Ebola outbreak occurred in 1976 in the mission hospital in Yambuku . In order not to stigmatize the village, the Belgian discoverers of the virus named it after the closest river on their imprecise map, the Ebola, about 15 km to the north.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976, Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 56 (2), pp.271-293, 1978. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; accessed on March 24, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The virus detective who discovered Ebola in 1976. By Rob Brown, BBC World Service, July 18, 2014.
