Ebola River
| Ebola River | |
|---|---|
Northern Ngbandi) | |
| Location | |
| Country | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Mongala River |
• coordinates | 3°19′24″N 20°57′38″E / 3.32333°N 20.96056°E |
| Length | 250 km (160 mi) |
The Ebola River (headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo River, in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo.[4] It is roughly 250 kilometers (160 mi) in length.[citation needed]
The name Ebola is a French corruption of Legbala, its name in Ngbandi which means 'white water'.[5] During the Belgian administration these names were interchangeable along with the French names Eau Blanche[3] and rarely L'Ébola.[5]
In 1976,
Ebola virus disease (usually referred to as simply "Ebola").[6]
References
- ^ "The American Heritage Dictionary entry: Ebola". The American Heritage Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Archived from the original on 2021-07-29. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ^ "Ebola | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". Cambridge English Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ^ (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-11. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- ^ vanden Bossche, J.-P.; Bernacsek, G. M. (1990). Zaire. Vol. 1. p. 336. )
- ^ a b c Wordsworth, Dot (25 October 2014). "How Ebola got its name". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
- ^ "Ebola outbreak confirmed by DR Congo". BBC News. 2014-08-25. Archived from the original on 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
External links
Media related to Ebola River at Wikimedia Commons
| Congo left bank (south) |  | |
|---|---|---|
| Kasai basin | ||
| Congo right bank (north) | ||
| Lualaba and tributaries | ||
| Other | ||