The Ebola River (/iˌboʊlə/ or /əˈboʊlə/),[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] It is roughly 250 kilometers (160 mi) in length.[citation needed]
The name Ebola is a French corruption of Legbala, its name in Ngbandi which means 'white water'.[5] During the Belgian administration these names were interchangeable along with the French names Eau Blanche[3] and rarely L'Ébola.[5]
In 1976, Ebola virus was first identified in Yambuku, 111 kilometers (69 mi) from the Ebola River, but the virologist Karl Johnson decided to name it after the river so that the town would not be associated with the disease's stigma.[5] Thus, the river is eponymous to the terms Ebola virus, Ebolavirus, and Ebola virus disease (usually referred to as simply "Ebola").[6]
^"The American Heritage Dictionary entry: Ebola". The American Heritage Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Archived from the original on 2021-07-29. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
^"Ebola | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". Cambridge English Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
^ abTanghe, Basile; Vangele, A. (June 1939). "Région de la Haute Ebola: Notes d'histoire (1890-1900)" (PDF). Aequatoria (in French). 2 (6): 61–65. JSTOR 25837382. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-11. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
^
vanden Bossche, J.-P.; Bernacsek, G. M. (1990). Zaire. Vol. 1. p. 336. ISBN 9789251029831. Retrieved 31 July 2014. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
^ abcWordsworth, Dot (25 October 2014). "How Ebola got its name". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^"Ebola outbreak confirmed by DR Congo". BBC News. 2014-08-25. Archived from the original on 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
The EbolaRiver (/iˌboʊlə/ or /əˈboʊlə/), also commonly known by its Ngbandi name Legbala, is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the...
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by...
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in Western Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major...
The virus responsible for the initial outbreak, named after the nearby EbolaRiver, was first thought to be Marburg virus but was later identified as a...
This list of Ebola outbreaks records the known occurrences of Ebola virus disease, a highly infectious and acutely lethal viral disease that has afflicted...
Zaire ebolavirus, more commonly known as Ebola virus (/iˈboʊlə, ɪ-/; EBOV), is one of six known species within the genus Ebolavirus. Four of the six known...
Ebola Syndrome (伊波拉病毒) is a 1996 Hong Kong Category III exploitation film directed by Herman Yau and starring Anthony Wong. Living in Hong Kong in 1986...
Four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") occurred in the United States in 2014. Eleven cases were reported,...
and in Zaire in August 1976. The name Ebolavirus is derived from the EbolaRiver in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), near the location...
research into Ebola and AIDS. After helping discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and leading efforts to contain the first-ever recorded Ebola epidemic that...
The Kivu Ebola epidemic was an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) mainly in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and in other parts of Central...
New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone". The filoviruses—including Ebola virus, Sudan virus, Marburg virus, and Ravn virus—are Biosafety Level 4...
Ebola vaccines are vaccines either approved or in development to prevent Ebola. As of 2022, there are only vaccines against the Zaire ebolavirus. The first...
Cameroon Kagera River - Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda Congo - Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo EbolaRiver - Democratic...
one of six known viruses within the genus Ebolavirus. Reston virus causes Ebola virus disease in non-human primates; unlike the other five ebolaviruses...
Organizations from around the world responded to the West African Ebola virus epidemic. In July 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened an...
The disease can cause haemorrhage, fever, and other symptoms similar to Ebola, which belongs to the same family of viruses. According to the WHO, there...
[citation needed] In the mid-1970s, the Ebola virus broke out at a missionary hospital in rural Yambuku, near the EbolaRiver. The disease, which was characterized...
attacks: a biological attack in the country using a weaponized strain of Ebola virus, a kidnapping attempt of Ryan's youngest daughter Katie, and an assassination...
Helle (2020-11-10). "After hard working days she rested by the beautiful EbolaRiver". globalhealth.ku.dk. Retrieved 2021-03-15. Nørulf, Morten Mechlenborg...
1977 and causes Ebola clinically indistinguishable from the ebola Zaire strain, but is less transmissible than it. Unlike with ebola Zaire there is no...
In 2014, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) occurred. Genome sequencing has shown that this outbreak was...
An epidemic of Ebola virus disease in Guinea from 2013 to 2016 represents the first ever outbreak of Ebola in a West African country. Previous outbreaks...
and Ravn virus (RAVV). Its clinical symptoms are very similar to those of Ebola virus disease (EVD). Egyptian fruit bats are believed to be the normal carrier...
Global Information