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Ebola crisis: Who discovered it? David Shukman explains

November 4, 2014 Updated at 01:12 GMT clock

In 1976, a blue bottle and a letter from a doctor in Kinshasa came to a laboratory in Antwerp, Belgium.

The bottle, the blood samples Belgian nun who had fallen ill with a mysterious disease.

When scientists looked at the electron microscope, they realized that they seek another than anything they had seen before the virus.

The only way to stop the spread had to stop to go to the center of the epidemic, said as a science editor David Shukman BBC.

Photo courtesy of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp

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