My special studies in this area have been on mission hospitals and clinics. (religion-online.org)
The report, published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, identifies an adult male who was hospitalized in late August 1976 at Yambuku Mission Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)-- known as Zaire at the time — as the first Ebola patient. (sciencedaily.com)
One after another, his caregivers at the Yambuku mission hospital fell ill, along with members of his family, other patients, and dozens of other, apparently unrelated, people. (sciencemag.org)