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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Description:
Ebola [ebʹo-lə]

Ebola virus, discovered in 1976 during an outbreak in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), was first isolated from Myriam Louise Ecran, a 42-year-old Belgian nursing sister working at the Yambuku Mission Hospital who died caring for people with this unknown disease. When the international commission considered the name “Yambuku virus,” Karl Johnson and Joel Breman noted that naming the Lassa virus after the Nigerian village where it was discovered brought stigma to the community. Johnson suggested naming the virus after a nearby river, and the rest of the commission agreed (Figure 1).. The Belgian name for the river, l’Ebola, is actually a corruption of the indigenous Ngbandi name Legbala, meaning “white water” or “pure water” (J.G. Breman, L.E. Chapman, F.A. Murphy, P.E. Rollin, pers. comm.) (Figure 2).


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Ebolavirus Etymologia Humans Terminology As Topic
Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 21(11):1905
Pubmed ID:
26785507
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4622270
Document Type:
Journal Article
Genre:
Etymologia
Place as Subject:
Zaire
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/38516/cdc_38516_DS1.pdf
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