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Does anyone out there know how this is pronounced in the area it was first discovered? I've seen it printed with an accent over the e, which makes me think it's actually a French term and should be pronounced something like "ay-bowl-AH". Thoughts?

Only heard it with accent on long O.
And repeatedly, I have pointed out in the US it is a tempest in a tea pot. No Ebola epidemic here, but a certain flu epidemic thag kills thousands every year. Get your flu shot.

Trust me, I most sincerely do not wish to bring in the insane panic surrounding this issue. I am merely asking if anyone knows how it pronuncified.

According to an article I read a few weeks ago in the NYTimes, the virus is named after a river in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_River),
Ebola is a French corruption of Legbala, the name of the river in the local language. Therefore, I think it should be pronounced in accordance with French phonology, with an accent aigu (IPA [e]).

Excellent, now I know how to spell accent aigu. And, now that I've looked up that part I know it is called an acute accent.

As the é is a corruption of the local term, should I be thinking of ébolA, or éBOLa. Ze French would put ze stress on ze ultima, but as it may not be real French, perhaps it's on the o?

In news stories about Africans in the NYC area being discriminated against because of Ebola hysteria (awhile back), the Africans being interviewed uniformly pronounced it AY-bo-la.

Thanks misterdoe. Let's hope the good news continues and they don't have to say it all that much anymore.