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Numerous filamentous ebolavirus particles (blue) budding from a chronically-infected VERO E6 cell (yellow-green) in this digitally colorized scanning electron micrograph produced by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The Sudan virus (SUDV) was first identified in 1976 following an outbreak of a hemorrhagic illness in Sudan. This outbreak occurred during the same year that the Ebola virus was first identified in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).12