Ebola

noun

Ebo·​la ē-ˈbō-lə How to pronounce Ebola (audio) i- How to pronounce Ebola (audio)
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or less commonly Ebola fever : the hemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus

Examples of Ebola in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The recent attention to contagious measles, tuberculosis, Ebola, and other illness outbreaks in the news has once more brought to light the threat that pandemics and bioterrorism pose. Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 An internal investigation report for the Public Health Agency of Canada, which includes the lab, shows that the couple fell under suspicion in 2018, when Dr. Qiu was named an inventor on a patent granted in China that appeared to use research developed by the agency for an Ebola vaccine. Ian Austen, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024 When those facts were stitched together with the false rumor that medical workers were spreading Ebola instead of trying to prevent people from dying from it, the workers were attacked. Catherine Buerger, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024 The humanitarian crisis sparked by the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was a wake up call. Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024 Lassa fever Like Ebola, Marburg, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic illness. Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 Jan. 2024 The biggest Ebola outbreak ever, from 2014 to 2016, killed more than 11,000 Africans but was passed to only two people on American soil, both of whom recovered. Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2024 Other illnesses, named for peoples (Spanish flu) and places (Ebola) and whole subspecies (hello, swine flu), have made the World Health Organization ask for a bit more care in naming diseases. Isabella Cueto, STAT, 28 Dec. 2023 Liberia is struggling to recover from two civil wars that killed more than 250,000 people between 1989 and 2003 and from a 2013-16 Ebola epidemic that killed thousands. Reuters, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1977, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of Ebola was in 1977

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“Ebola.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ebola. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

Ebola

noun
Ebo·​la ē-ˈbō-lə How to pronounce Ebola (audio)
: a serious often deadly disease that is caused by a virus found in Africa and is marked by fever, muscle aches, and bleeding inside the body

Medical Definition

Ebola

noun
1
2
: the hemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus

called also Ebola fever

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