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    Yambuku is a small village in Mongala Province in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was the center of the first documented outbreak of Ebola...
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    Health Organization commission report on the outbreak lists a man from Yambuku, Mabalo Lokela, as the index case. Lokela, a 44-year-old who had been buying...
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  • of Utah, 2001) Zuster Veronica, Het drama van Yambuku (Dutch: "Sister Veronica, The Tragedy of Yambuku") (1991), Uitgeverij De Fontein, Baarn. Ebola:...
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    the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The first recorded case was from Yambuku, a small village in Mongala District, 1,098 kilometres (682 mi) northeast...
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    Blanche and rarely L'Ébola. In 1976, Ebola virus was first identified in Yambuku, 111 kilometers (69 mi) from the Ebola River, but the virologist Karl Johnson...
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    simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara (a town in South Sudan) and the other in Yambuku (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), a village near the Ebola River...
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    any other ebolavirus. The first outbreak occurred on 26 August 1976 in Yambuku. The first recorded case was Mabalo Lokela, a 44‑year-old schoolteacher...
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  • Belgian nuns were at the center of the 1976 Ebola outbreak at a clinic in Yambuku, with several white health workers becoming fatally ill with the virus...
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  • Joel Breman in Yambuku, Zaïre in 1976 Born (1936-12-01)December 1, 1936 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Died April 6, 2024(2024-04-06) (aged 87) Chevy Chase,...
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    National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (INRB). He was part of team at the Yambuku Catholic Mission Hospital that investigated the first Ebola outbreak, and...
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