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The First Outbreak Of Ebola

Ebola has been an identified disease since 1976 when two separate outbreaks occurred in two different villages near the Ebola River which is in Central Africa. No treatment or prevention is available to combat Ebola in third world countries, and many people who come in contact with the disease in these developing countries will die. Official mortality rates for people who contract Ebola are between 25-90%. This photo, taken in 1976 in Zaire, is one of the first pictures of an Ebola victim, Nurse Mayinga N’Seka, who later died from the disease. The country of Zaire is now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The outbreak that claimed N'Seka's life also killed 280 other people in the region. Outbreaks of Ebola still happen today as evidenced by an epidemic of Ebola between 2013 and 2016 in Africa.