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========== [MUSIC] On September 8, 1976, in the Yumbuku village
hospital, near the tiny Ebola river in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, a
schoolteacher died, becoming the first known victim of a still-mysterious disease. The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa
is by far the worst in the short history of this strange virus, and it’s ignited a wave
of alarm and generalized freak-out around the world. Today we’re gonna give you a
detailed, accurate explanation of this disease to try and give this whole situation a nice
calm, comforting, scientific hug. [MUSIC] There’s a lot we still don’t know about
Ebola. We don’t know how long it’s been around. We aren’t sure where it hides. We
don’t know exactly how it kills, or who may be immune. But… there...