How Ebola Got Its Name

Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

The Ebola virus that's causing the devastating outbreak in West Africa didn't even have a name just 38 years ago when it first surfaced and caused a mysterious illness among villagers in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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