In Yambuku, they found the mission and hospital. The nuns had tried to shut everything down and had posted a sign on the guesthouse where they slept warning that "anybody who passes this fence ...

They went to Yambuku, a remote village in the north where Ebola killed almost 300 people in 1976. He says Yambuku hasn't changed much since then. When Ebola first struck the village, ...

In August 1976, a 44-year-old headmaster named Mabalo Lokela arrived back in the town of Yambuku in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after two weeks spent touring with a local mission. A few ...

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 ...

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.

A bloodstained note said the nun was among 200 people, including doctors and nurses, dying in an outbreak that had raged for three weeks in remote Yambuku, not far from the Ebola River.

Analysis of 1976 Ebola outbreak holds lessons relevant today Date: June 29, 2016 Source: NIH/Fogarty International Center Summary: With the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa reviving interest ...

Germany's Der Spiegel has a fascinating/frightening interview with Peter Piot, who's one of the world's leading public health experts (he was the ...

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 ...

Some survivors of the 1976 Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo still had antibodies against the virus 40 years after they were infected, according to researchers. A few ...

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 ...