Yambuku - Ebola virus ground zero and the terrifying discovery (and death) of "patent zero"

The Ebola saga began in 1976 in a small village in Congo called Yambuku and the news leaking out of the area was terrifying – lifeless bodies of feverish birds falling from the sky and human bodies piled by the roadsides formed impressions of the apocalypse in the minds of medical professionals. When samples of an infected Flemish nun’s blood arrived in Belgium, scientists immediately recognized they were dealing with an unknown viral invader– and that it was extremely dangerous.

Yambuku - Ebola virus ground zero and the terrifying discovery (and death) of "patent zero"