From October 2001 to December 2003, severalEbolaoutbreaksof the Zairesubtype werereportedinGabonand the Republicof the Congowith atotalof 302 cases and 254 deaths.
It was named for the Ebola River in the former Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Muamba was born in the Democratic Republicof Congo, then known as Zaire, and came to England in 1999 at the age of 11 after being granted political asylum.
Ebola was first identified in equatorial Sudan following significant outbreaks in northern Zaire (now Democratic Republicof Congo) and southern Sudan in the mid 1970s.