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West Africa once suffered a large Ebola epidemic.
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history
Named after the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the village where the virus was first identified in 1976. The 2014-2016 epidemic in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people.
usage
The virus is 埃博拉病毒; the disease is formally 埃博拉病毒病, and the older name 埃博拉出血热 (Ebola haemorrhagic fever) is still common.
