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.


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

Ebenaceae
Ebenales
Ebenezer
Eberth's bacillus
Eberth's lines
Ebeye
Ebionite
Ebionites
Ebionitic
Eblaite
Eblis
Ebner's glands
Ebner's reticulum
Ebola
Ebola fever (current term)
Ebola hemorrhagic fever
Ebola virus
Ebonic
Ebonics
Ebony
Ebro
Ebro River
Ebstein's sign
Eburones
Eburophyton
Eburophyton austinae
Ecballium elaterium
Ecbatana

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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