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First Ebola survier
A sick person came into Dr. Thomas Cairn's clinic and died before doctors could help. During the autopsy he nicked his finger with a scalpel and became the first non-African Ebola surviver. -
Ebola discovered
Ebola was discovered in 1976 by Peter Piot. -
second strain of Ebola
Second strain of Ebola emerged from Yambuku, Zaire with a mortality rate of 88%. -
Third strain of Ebola
When infected monkeys were imported to Virgina. -
Fourth strain of Ebola
When a female ethologist performing a necropsy on a dead chimp from the Tai Forest accidentally infected herself. -
Uganda outbreak
Ebola killled 425 people in Uganda -
First Ebola cases in the US
Dr. Kent Brantly contracted Ebola while working in Liberia and is the patient to be treated in the US. -
Working on Ebola vaccine
Working on an Ebola vaccine at Oxford university in England. -
First Ebola death in the U.S
Thomas Eric Duncan is the first person to die of Ebola in the United States. He had a fever and was vomiting when he got to the hospital and was sent home. Then days later came back to the same hospital. -
Vaccine given out in Guinea
Nearly 800 Ebola suffers have been given a experimental vaccine.
