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  Science Fair Projects - Ebola
It is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), near where the first outbreak was noted by Dr.
Ngoy Mushola in 1976 after a significant outbreak in Yambuku, Congo, and Nzara, in western Sudan.
The needle used for Lokela's quinine injection was inadequately sterilized, so Ebola had spread from patient to patient as the needles were reused.
all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Ebola   (2553 words)

  
 The Scripps Research Institute - News and Views
The scariest thing about Ebola virus is not what it has done but what it might do.
In the summer of 1976, Ngoy Mushola, a doctor from Bumba, Zaire, traveled to Yambuku, a town on the shores of the Ebola river.
There, at a local hospital, Mushola recorded the first clinical description of a new disease that was killing almost all of the patients who contracted it.
www.scripps.edu /newsandviews/e_20020114/ebola1.html   (1037 words)

  
 Revisiting Ebola : Exploring Essential Information, Data and Explanation.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is named after the Ebola River in
Zaire, Africa, near where the first outbreak was noted by Dr Ngoy Mushola in 1976 after a significant outbreak in Yambuku,
He also told the nurses to instruct patients' families not to bury their dead inside or close to their homes as tradition dictated, since Ebola could spread from dead bodies.
www.llpoh.org /Biology_Update/Ebola.html   (3207 words)

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