What is the Ebola Ebola virus Part 4 History Ebola virus (abbreviated EBOV) was first described in 1976. Today, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses lists the virus as the single member of the species Zaire ebolavirus, which is included into the genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae, order Mononegavirales. The name Ebola virus is derived from the Ebola River — a river that was at first thought to be in close proximity to the area in Democratic Republic of Congo, previously called Zaire, where the first recorded Ebola virus disease outbreak occurred — and the taxonomic suffix virus. Strictly speaking, the pronunciation of Ebola virus (/iːˌboʊlə ˈvaɪərəs/) should be distinct from that of the genus-level taxonomic designation ebolavirus/Ebolavirus/ebolavirus, as Ebola is named for the tributary of the Congo River that is pronounced Ébola in French, whereas ebola-virus is an artificial contraction of the words Ebola and virus, written without a diacritical mark for ease of use by scientific databases and English speakers.
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