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Historical Perspective

Notable VHF outbreaks

• Mékambo in Gabon is the site of several outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
• Orientale, Congo villages of Durba and Watsa were the epicenter of the 1998–2000 outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever.
• Uige Province in Angola is the site of world's worst hemorrhagic fever epidemic, which occurred in 2005.
• The ongoing VHF outbreak in the village of Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that started in August, 2007, and that has killed 103 people (100 adults and three children), has been shown to be caused (at least partially) by the Ebola virus.
• Some experts believe that the Black Death of the Middle Ages may have been caused by a VHF and not by the bubonic plague.