The Ebola virus

Witness History

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History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Some 300 people died during the first documented outbreak of the deadly disease occurred in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of Congo - then known as Zaire. The virus was named after the river which flowed close to the village where it was discovered. Two doctors, Dr Jean Jacques Muyembe and Dr David Heymann, were among those who worked to bring the outbreak under control. They spoke to Claire Bowes in 2009.

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Image: The Ebola virus under a microscope. Credit: Science Photo Library

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1:15.0	This week we're going back through our archives to bring you stories about viral epidemics down the years
1:20.0	and their impacts on the world.
1:22.0	Today we're going back to the Democratic Republic of Congo,
1:25.3	then known as Zaire,
1:26.8	and one of the first documented outbreaks
1:28.9	of the deadly Ebola virus in the mid-1970s. Claire Bowes reports.
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