Kikwit

Researchers made their latest finding by studying the bone marrow of a lucky survivor of a 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, a city in the southwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Scientists Uncover Deadly Ebola Virus’s "Achilles’ Heel" « Isegoria 2008

"Everyone was afraid," says Gabriel Muhungu, an English teacher in Kikwit.

On Scene In The Hot Zone 2008

In Kikwit, the disease raged through the ranks of the hospital's staff.

Outbreak Of Fear 2008

Obviously there is more at work here than concern for people in Kikwit or Kinshasa.

Outbreak Of Fear 2008

In Kikwit, ostracism is the fate of anyone who looks ill or shows the symptoms that signal Ebola's acute, contagious phase-bleeding from the eyes, ears and skin.

On Scene In The Hot Zone 2008

At first, medical workers in Kikwit thought they were treating cases of "red diarrhea" - a serious but usually nonlethal gastrointestinal ailment.

On Scene In The Hot Zone 2008

"There are no reports of the disease outside of a limited radius of little villages surrounding Kikwit," says a World Health Organization spokesman.

On Scene In The Hot Zone 2008

Short course: Officials of the World Health Organization worked to quell fears that the Ebola virus could spread from Kikwit to the rest of Zaire-and the rest of the world.

On Scene In The Hot Zone 2008

It was a security guard at Kikwit General, Bavon Mikweni, who brought the Ebola virus home to the one-room hovel where he lived with four others.

On Scene In The Hot Zone 2008

Last week the Atlanta-based federal centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Belgian branch of the relief group Medecins Sans Frontieres and other organizations rushed consignments of protective equipment to Kikwit General, where two more Italian nuns lay dying.

On Scene In The Hot Zone 2008