Ebola was discovered in 1976. When two outbreaks of a mysterious disease happened in two towns one in Nzara and the other in Yambuku near the Ebola river there taken of the name
No specific treatment vaccine or cure for the virus has been made althought treatments are avaible the virus spreads by direct contact with body fluids such as
blood of an infected human or other animals. This may also occur through contact with a item recently with body fluids
In 2014 a outbreak started which killed so far 9,467 deaths and 23,406 people left infected including that of Thomas Eric Duncan who became the first man in america to die of ebola
