Davey Jones
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I was curious where that name,ebola, came from....Here's part of the story...
One obvious option would have been the Congo River, which is the deepest river in the world and flows through the country and its rainforest. But there was a problem—another virus with a similar name already existed. That virus was the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
So the scientists looked at a small map, pinned up on the wall, for any other rivers near Yambuku. On the map, it appeared that the closest river to Yambuku was called Ebola, meaning "Black River," in the local language Lingala.
"It seemed suitably ominous," Piot writes.
However, the map was inaccurate, and the Ebola river turned out not to be the closest river to Yambuku, Piot says.
"But in our entirely fatigued state, that's what we ended up calling the virus: Ebola."
http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-got-name-153519260.html
One obvious option would have been the Congo River, which is the deepest river in the world and flows through the country and its rainforest. But there was a problem—another virus with a similar name already existed. That virus was the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
So the scientists looked at a small map, pinned up on the wall, for any other rivers near Yambuku. On the map, it appeared that the closest river to Yambuku was called Ebola, meaning "Black River," in the local language Lingala.
"It seemed suitably ominous," Piot writes.
However, the map was inaccurate, and the Ebola river turned out not to be the closest river to Yambuku, Piot says.
"But in our entirely fatigued state, that's what we ended up calling the virus: Ebola."
http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-got-name-153519260.html
