Yambuku's a small village in Mongala Province in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (previously Zaire) and was the site of the first known outbreak of the Ebola Zaire strain of the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus. It's about 600 miles north of the capital city of Kinshasa. Ebola The first known appearance of Ebola virus was on 26 August 1976, in this rural village on the Ebola River. In all, 318 cases were identified of which 280 died. (An additional 284 cases and 151 deaths occurred in nea… (More on Yambuku)