THE ebola virus!?

Where has the Ebola virus occured mainly, who does it effect (is there exceptions, like does it infect children more for example), and how many outbreaks has there been? I have been trying to look for this, but I can only find Wikipedia and that isn't always a reliable source. Thanks!! please send me the link if possible!

Center for disease Control has all this info....

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpag...

Transmission and
History

The Ebola virus was first identified in a western equatorial province of Sudan and in a nearby region of Za茂re (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1976 after significant epidemics in Yambuku, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nzara, southern Sudan.

Between June and November 1976, the Ebola virus infected 284 people in Sudan, causing 151 deaths. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there were 318 cases and 280 deaths in September and October. An isolated case occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1977, and there was another outbreak in Sudan in 1979 (33 cases, including 22 deaths).
In 1989, an Ebola virus subtype Reston, was isolated in quarantined laboratory cynomolgus monkeys (Macacca fascicularis) in Reston, Virginia, USA. From 1989 to 1996, several outbreaks caused by the Ebola Reston subtype occurred in monkeys imported from the Philippines to the USA (Reston in Virginia, Alice in Texas and Pennsylvania) and to Italy. Investigations traced the source of all Ebola Reston outbreaks to one export facility near Manila in the Philippines, but the mode of contamination of this facility was not determined. Several monkeys died, and at least four people were infected, although none of them suffered clinical illness.
One human case of Ebola haemorrhagic fever of the Cote d'Ivoire subtype and several cases in chimpanzees were confirmed in C么te d'Ivoire in November 1994.
A large epidemic occurred in Kikwit, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1995 with 315 cases, 250 of which had fatal outcomes.
In Gabon, Ebola haemorrhagic fever was first documented in 1994 (19 cases including 9 deaths). Successive outbreaks occurred in February (37 cases including 21 deaths) and July of 1996 (60 cases including 45 deaths).
In October 2000, Ebola was reported in Gulu district in northern Uganda. Between September 2000 and January 2001, the Sudan subtype of the Ebola virus infected 425 cases, including 224 deaths, making this the largest epidemic so far documented of Ebola. This was the first reported emergence of the Sudan Ebola virus since 1979.
From October 2001 to December 2003, several EHF outbreaks of the Za茂re subtype, were reported in Gabon and the Republic of Congo with a total of 302 cases and 254 deaths: M茅kambo-Mbomo-K茅ll茅 2001-2002, K茅ll茅-Mbomo 2003 and Mbandza-Mbomo 2003.
Approximately 1,850 cases with over 1,200 deaths have been documented since the Ebola virus was discovered.