Ebola Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Sudan==== [[File:Cotton Factory in Nzara, South Sudan.jpg|thumb|Cotton factory in Nzara, South Sudan, where the first outbreak occurred]] The first known outbreak of EVD was identified only after the fact. It occurred between June and November 1976, in [[Nzara, South Sudan]]<ref name="Hoenen2012">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Hoenen T, Groseth A, Feldmann H |date=July 2012 |title=Current Ebola vaccines |journal=Expert Opin Biol Ther |volume=12 |issue=7 |pages=859–872 |doi=10.1517/14712598.2012.685152 |pmc=3422127 |pmid=22559078}}</ref><ref name="Peterson AT, Bauer JT, Mills JN 2004 40–47">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Peterson AT, Bauer JT, Mills JN |year=2004 |title=Ecologic and Geographic Distribution of Filovirus Disease |journal=Emerg. Infect. Dis. |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=40–47 |doi=10.3201/eid1001.030125 |pmc=3322747 |pmid=15078595}}</ref> (then part of [[Sudan]]), and was caused by [[Sudan virus]] (SUDV). The Sudan outbreak infected 284 people and killed 151. The first identifiable case in Sudan occurred on 27 June in a storekeeper in a cotton factory in [[Nzara]], who was hospitalised on 30 June and died on 6 July.<ref name="Feldmann2011" /><ref name="who's first encounter">{{Cite web |title=Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Sudan, 1976 |url=http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1978/Vol56-No2/bulletin_1978_56(2)_247-270.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013194802/http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1978/Vol56-No2/bulletin_1978_56(2)_247-270.pdf |archive-date=13 October 2014 |access-date=8 October 2014}}</ref> Although the WHO medical staff involved in the Sudan outbreak knew that they were dealing with a heretofore unknown disease, the actual "positive identification" process and the naming of the virus did not occur until some months later in [[Zaire]].<ref name="who's first encounter" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page