Ebola

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1976: named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), near which the disease was first observed.

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Named after the river, which flowed near the first outbreak of Ebola that was first identified as Ebola. Reports conflict about who initially coined the name: either Karl Johnson of the American Centers for Disease Control [1] or Belgian researchers. [2]

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ebola (n.)

virus, 1976, named for Ebola River valley in Congo, where it first was studied.