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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.
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Ebola was discovered in 1976 by Peter Piot.
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Second strain of Ebola emerged from Yambuku, Zaire with a mortality rate of 88%.
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When infected monkeys were imported to Virgina.
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When a female ethologist performing a necropsy on a dead chimp from the Tai Forest accidentally infected herself.
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Ebola killled 425 people in Uganda
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Dr. Kent Brantly contracted Ebola while working in Liberia and is the patient to be treated in the US.
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Working on an Ebola vaccine at Oxford university in England.
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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.
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Nearly 800 Ebola suffers have been given a experimental vaccine.
