In 1976, the laboratory of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp received a Thermos from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a vast central African country then called Zaire. In it was the blood of a Flemish nun who had died of an unknown disease. The mysterious illness caused fever, uncontrollable diarrhoea and haemorrhagic bleeding. Most people who contracted it were dead within weeks. Only later was it given a name: Ebola.
1976年,安特衛普熱帶醫學研究所(Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp)的實驗室收到了一個來自剛果民主共和國(這個廣闊的中非國家當時還叫扎伊爾)的保溫瓶。瓶中裝的是一個死于未知疾病的佛蘭芒修女的血液。這種神秘的疾病會導致發燒、無法止住的腹瀉和內出血。大多數感染這種疾病的人會在數周內死亡。直到后來,人們才給這種病毒起名為“埃博拉”。
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