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Definition of Ebola fever
1. Noun. A severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa.
Generic synonyms: Haemorrhagic Fever, Hemorrhagic Fever, Vhf, Viral Haemorrhagic Fever, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
Definition of Ebola fever
1. Noun. (disease) An extremely contagious and often fatal illness caused by the Ebola virus, characterised by fever and internal bleeding, contracted through infected body fluids. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebola Fever
Literary usage of Ebola fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Protection Against by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"... Against Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents : Suppl 4 cq Stockholm. Sweden.
11-16 June 1995 OUTBREAK OF ebola fever IN ZAIRE Bo ..."
2. A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 by J. Worth Estes, Billy G. Smith (1997)
"Legionnaires Disease had no great impact on the city's or the nation's death
rate, but it anticipated an era of AIDS, ebola fever, Lyme disease, ..."
3. Social Sciences and Innovation by OECD Staff, Oecd (2001)
"... Virus (HIV) that causes it, ebola fever, most cancers, genetic aberrations,
Alzheimer's disease, still remain without cures or are poorly controlled. ..."
4. Destruction of a Planet: Zionism Is Racism by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1991)
"It is a brother to the disease known now as Lassa fever, which will kill 35 out
of every 100 people it strikes, ebola fever, which kills 70 out of every 100 ..."
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