Re. The identification of Ebola, had there been an existing name among the locals it would have been used.

Nonsense, though that is an aside. There was malaria before white folks got there, it's called malaria, not any of the native terms for it. There was sleeping sickness before white folks started calling it Trypanosomiasis. We never take the native words for diseases, we name them usually for the place *we* first found it, like ebola and dengue, or we make up a white person's word for it, like Onchocerciasis.

But that is an aside. Thinking that just because white people have heard of it now means it was just discovered is old-fashioned. To be kind.

Kinda like thinking art started in Europe because white folks hadn't found any cave paintings outside Europe yet...