196 The Democratic Republic of the Congo is an African country. Some people in a village called Yambuku were suffering from high fever and headache. Blood samples were sent to a laboratory in Belgium. The researchers found a long thread-like virus in the microscope. It does not match with any virus known at that time. The group eventually went to Yambuku and saw that many people were quickly infected with the virus and many were dying. The team set out to find out how the virus is transmitted and what reactions it produces in the body and how to stop it. But first of all you have to give it a name. One said, Combined with the name of the village, it can be called Yambuku virus. Others did not agree. Because it will discredit the village. In 1969 such a problem has arisen. Lhasa has become infamous in Nigeria due to the Lhasa virus. In the end, it can be named after a river. Congo is a well-known river in Africa. What is its name? Another wanted to know. But the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus has been named in conjunction with the Congo. At last the map was found and the name of the river near Yambukur was Ebola. The Ebola virus is the name of that river. All this was written by Peter Payet in his memoirs. There was no time to breathe: the whole life behind the deadly virus (No Time to Lose: A Life in the Pursuit of Deadly Viruses).
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