Word: gabonian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known disease, has killed 13 and infected as many as 14 others in a remote villiage in Gabon. The villagers of Mayibout caught the deadly disease after eating meat from a dead chimpanzee found in the jungle. The World Health Organization has a team investigating the area, and the Gabonian goverment is trying to educate the population about the disease. Their efforts may be in vain, however. The Ebola virus has no cure, and painfully kills 80 to 90 percent of its victims, causing massive bleeding, liquifying their internal tissues. Ebola is only spread by transfer of blood and bodily...
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