Despite being named for the Ebola River in Congo the virus was first isolated some distance away; where?
2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak independent event, with no relationship to the outbreak in West Africa. <br> This was the country’s seventh Ebola outbreak since 1976. The first case of Ebola disease ever recorded occurred in August 1976 in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala District in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Zaire). The first victim of the disease was the village school headmaster, who had toured an area near the Central African Republic border along the Ebola river in mid-August. On 8 September, he died of what would become known as Ebola virus disease. Subsequently, a number of other cases
Ebola virus time, a third team introduced the name "Ebola virus", derived from the Ebola River where the 1976 outbreak occurred. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) identifies Ebola virus as species "Zaire ebolavirus", which is included into the genus "Ebolavirus", family "Filoviridae", order "Mononegavirales". The name "Ebola virus" is derived from the Ebola River—a river that was at first thought to be in close proximity to the area in Democratic Republic of Congo, previously called Zaire, where the 1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak occurred—and the taxonomic suffix "virus". In 2000, the virus name was changed to Zaire Ebola virus,