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The Ebola River (/ i ˌ b oʊ l ə / or / ə ˈ b oʊ l ə /), [1] [2] also commonly known by its Ngbandi name Legbala, [3] is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo River, in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo. [4]
22 gru 2020 · Humanity faces an unknown number of new and potentially fatal viruses emerging from Africa’s tropical rainforests, according to Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, who helped discover...
7 maj 2022 · DR Congo is home to the second largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon, making the country a hotbed for Ebola virus. The virus needs to move from its vector—most likely bats or monkeys—to a human being for the outbreak to occur, explains Boum.
Unlike previous Ebola outbreaks in the country, this one involved four separate locations, including an urban centre with river connections to the capital and to neighbouring countries, as well as remote rainforest villages.
20 kwi 2023 · Ebola first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in what is now Nzara, South Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name.
1 cze 2017 · Every night, dozens of males of that species congregate in this patch of rainforest in the northern part of the Republic of the Congo, vying for females with their calls. With a wingspan of up to 1 meter, they are Africa's biggest bats.
4 lis 2021 · Ebolavirus was first discovered in 1976 during an outbreak in Ebola River valley in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC]) in Central Africa. Another simultaneous outbreak occurred in Sudan . It was postulated that two earlier cases of EVD may have occurred in 1972.
