Mayinga N'Seka

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This 1976 photograph shows two nurses standing in front of Kinshasa case #3 (Nurse Mayinga) who was treated and later died in Ngaliema Hospital, in Kinshasa, Zaïre - CDC/Dr. Lyle Conrad

Mayinga N'Seka was the index case in an Ebola epidemic in Zaïre, now Democratic Republic of the Congo. The means by which she contracted the virus remain uncertain, and Mayinga may represent the only case of airborne Ebola infection in humans. She was admitted to the Ngaliema hospital in Kinshasa. However, none of the people who came into contact with "Nurse Mayinga" contracted the virus. She died on October 20, 1976. There were 318 cases in this outbreak with an 88% mortality rate.

The particular strain of Ebola was named "Zaïre virus strain Mayinga".

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• Ebola

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