Mayinga N'Seka
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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 remain uncertain, and Mayinga may represent the only case of airborne Ebola infection in humans. She was admitted to the Ngaliema hospital in Kinshasa. However, none of the people who came into contact with "Nurse Mayinga" contracted the virus. She died on October 20, 1976. There were 318 cases in this outbreak, which had an 88% mortality rate.
There have been a few written assertions that authorities investigating that outbreak were initially unable to determine Nurse Mayinga's given name. It is alleged that many of the people who were interviewed had never inquired or could not recall, and that, of the official documents available to the investigators, many only listed: "Mayinga, N." It is unclear whether this was actually true.
The particular strain of Ebola was named "Zaïre virus strain Mayinga".
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