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World Service,1 min

How Ebola was discovered

The Inquiry

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Professor Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Tropical Medicine, tells us about a time when a lab he worked in received a blue thermos flask containing the blood of a nun who had died from a mysterious illness. He had never seen anything like it before. After tests, a new virus was confirmed - the disease was called Ebola. Image: Vaccination against the Ebola virus Credit: Reuters

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