The most recent outbreak occurred in a province that neighbors a small village called Yambuku, where the disease first reared its head. When Ebola started to kill patients in a missionary hospital ...

Ebola Epidemic In Africa, a virus spreads Since the Ebola virus was first reported in 1976 near the Ebola River in the village of Yambuku in DRC, the virus has caused 44 more outbreaks, killing ...

Dr. Peter Piot (left) meets with Sukato Mandzomba, a nurse who contracted Ebola during the 1976 outbreak. Mandzomba now runs a makeshift hospital lab in Yambuku.

Ebola is famously deadly, but not inevitably so. Around 12 percent of those who were infected in the Yambuku outbreak survived their brush with the disease, and many of them are still around today.

Piot: In their hospital, they regularly gave pregnant women vitamin injections using unsterilized needles. By doing so, they infected many young women in Yambuku with the Ebola virus.

Two Belgian nuns with Ebola had been evacuated from Yambuku to Kinshasa, Zaire’s capital, and the specter loomed of an imminent, uncontrolled epidemic of Ebola among the millions living there ...

In Zaire, Piot joined an international team of scientists who flew to Yambuku and mapped Ebola’s spread, determining that the principal route was through unsterilized needles and syringes ...

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In Yambuku, which had been part of the colony Belgian Congo, they operated a small, mission hospital. When the Belgian government decided to send someone, I volunteered immediately.

The Yambuku “health zone” covers 14,000 sq km and 260,000 inhabitants but has no ambulance, no means of communication, hardly any medicines and just one fridge for vaccines.

The first known Ebola outbreak devastated a small village called Yambuku and the surrounding area in the north of the Congo in 1976. When it started to kill patients in a missionary hospital, a ...

Dr. Peter Piot (right) meets with Sukato Mandzomba, a nurse who contracted Ebola during the 1976 outbreak. Mandzomba now runs a makeshift hospital lab in Yambuku. Women wait in a maternal ward in ...