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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 man from ...
Aug 13, 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 quarantine ...
The prototype Ebola virus, variant Mayinga (EBOV/May), was named for Mayinga N'Seka, a nurse who died during the 1976 Zaire outbreak. [1] [57] [58] The name Zaire ebolavirus is derived from Zaire and the taxonomic suffix ebolavirus (which denotes an ebolavirus species and refers to the Ebola River ). [1]
N'Seka worked as a nurse at Ngaliema hospital in Kinshasa and contracted Ebola after caring for a nun who had flown in for treatment from the Yambuku Mission Hospital, where the outbreak began. Mayinga died at Ngaleima Hospital on October 19, 1976.
Jun 4, 2019 · 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. She died but samples of her blood were sent to laboratories around the world. “They come and they take [samples], you don’t even know about it,” said Muyembe, the virologist, in an interview with TNH last year.
Belgian nuns serving the community were also infected, and two of them died, along with Mayinga N'Seka, a Zairean nurse, after the group was transported to Kinshasa. With assistance from the WHO, the outbreak was eventually contained by quarantining local villagers in their communities, sterilizing medical equipment, and providing protective ...
Mayinga N'Seka was the index case in an Ebola epidemic in Zaïre, now Democratic Republic of the Congo. The means by which she contracted the virus remain uncertain, and Mayinga may represent the only case of airborne Ebola infection in humans. She was admitted to the Ngaliema hospital in Kinshasa. However, none of the people who came into ...
