Ebola virus

American  

noun

1. a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.

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Ebola virus Scientific  

/ ĭ-bō′lə /

1. A virus of African origin, belonging to the genus Filovirus, that causes a highly contagious infection characterized by fever, respiratory symptoms, bleeding, and sometimes central nervous system involvement with coma. In many patients there is progressive organ failure leading to death.

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Example Sentences

The U.K. government has advised against nearly all travel to the Central African Republic, and Brown said he was warned about rebel fighters, bandits, poachers, Russian mercenaries, dengue fever and the Ebola virus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

At least 15 people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's health ministry has said.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

Rasmussen, for example, has studied Ebola using mouse-adapted Ebola virus, which is a necessary adaptation in order to study the disease in mice in a way that's comparable to humans.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

Rutgers University microbiologist Richard Ebright is also troubled that under the new rules Ebola virus, SARS-CoV-2, and monkeypox are apparently not considered PPPs.

From Science Magazine • May 7, 2024

In it, I said that I was fascinated by Ebola virus.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston