Richard Preston

Richard Preston

male, 55 years old
The Demon in the Freezer, Pomona College alumni, smallpox, anthrax, The Cobra Event, C.J Peters…Ebola
Richard Preston (b. August 5, 1954) is a "New Yorker" writer and bestselling author of books about alarming infectious disease epidemics and...
Leonard Horowitz

Leonard Horowitz

male
Harvard University, DMD, Masters Degree, doctor of dental medicine, Beacon College, AIDS…Ebola
Leonard Horowitz DMD, MA, MPH is a medical researcher who has written several books on topics of current medical interest, the most famous of which...
Peter Piot

Peter Piot

male, 60 years old
University of Washington, AIDS activist, Vlerick Award, kinshasa, ebola virus, AIDS…Ebola
Dr. Peter Piot is Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS. In 2004, he was awarded...
Matthew Lukwiya

Matthew Lukwiya

male, deceased (2000)
Doctor, uganda, ugandan, Ebola, St. Mary's Hospital Lacor, Gulu
Dr. Matthew Lukwiya (24 November 1957-5 December 2000) was a Ugandan physician and the supervisor of St. Mary's Hospital Lacor, outside of Gulu. He...
Don Francis

Don Francis

male
Epidemiologist, george h.w. bush, hiv, AIDS, Ebola
Don Francis is an American epidemiologist who worked on the Ebola outbreak in Africa in the late 1970s, and helped discover HIV and AIDS. He...

Ngoy Mushola

male
zaire, Ebola, Bumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zairian physician, Yambuku, Bumba
Ngoy Mushola is a doctor from Bumba, Zaire. He recorded the first description of the Ebola virus in a town named Yambuku.
Mayinga N'Seka

Mayinga N'Seka

female, deceased (1976)
Congolese nurse, human, zaire, kinshasa, epidemic, Given name…Ebola
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 r...