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Mayinga N'Seka (1954 – October 19, 1976 in Kinshasa) was a nurse in Zaïre, now Democratic Republic of the Congo. She died from Ebola virus disease during the 1976 epidemic in Zaïre . She has been incorrectly identified as the index case by several sources, but a World Health Organization commission report on the outbreak lists a ...
12. Nov. 2023 · Mayinga N’Seka served as a nurse in what was then known as Zaïre, now recognized as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She lost her life to Ebola virus disease during the 1976 epidemic in...
In August–November 1976, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo ). The first recorded case was from Yambuku, a small village in Mongala District, [1] 1,098 kilometres (682 mi) northeast of the capital city of Kinshasa .
Mayinga N'Seka was a nurse in Zaïre, now Democratic Republic of the Congo, who contracted Ebola virus disease in 1976. She treated a nun who had flown in from the outbreak area and died at Ngaliema hospital. Her name and blood have been used for research on Ebola virus.
13. Aug. 2014 · Barely a fortnight before, three people from the Belgian mission in Yambuku—two nuns and a priest—had been brought to the capital for treatment. All were now dead, and they had infected at least one nurse, Mayinga N'Seka, now hospitalized in critical condition. Efforts were being made to track down all her contacts in the city to ...
4. Juni 2019 · Outside of the transparency issues, there is an additional issue of how genetic materials are extracted and used – and the consent and rights that should be attached. The strain of the Ebola virus in the first known outbreak in 1976 is named “Mayinga” after a 22-year-old nurse, Mayinga N'Seka.
The prototype Ebola virus, variant Mayinga (EBOV/May), was named for Mayinga N'Seka, a nurse who died during the 1976 Zaire outbreak. The name Zaire ebolavirus is derived from Zaire and the taxonomic suffix ebolavirus (which denotes an ebolavirus species and refers to the Ebola River).
