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Ebola, n. Virol. and Med.
Brit. |iːˈbəʊlə|, |ɪˈbəʊlə|, |ɛˈbəʊlə|, U.S. |ɪˈbəʊlə|, |iˈbəʊlə|, |ɛˈbəʊlə|
[‹ Ebola, the name of a river and district in northwestern Zaire, where an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever occurred in 1976.]
I. Compounds.
1. Ebola virus n. a tropical African filovirus known to infect humans and certain other primates, causing epidemics of severe, usually fatal haemorrhagic fever in humans.
1976N.Y. Times 1 Dec. a7/1 The virus responsible for the recent epidemic of green monkey fever..will be known as the Ebola Virus, after a river in the north [of Zaire]. 1990Animals' Agenda Mar. 34/3 The Ebola virus..entered the U.S. last Nov. 27 with a shipment of 100 Philippine monkeys. 1995Guardian 12 May i. 15/1 International medical experts fought to contain the rare but deadly Ebola virus in Zaire yesterday. 2001C. Glazebrook Madolescents 213 Maybe I'm having an attack of malaria or I caught the Ebola virus at Gemma Probert's germy flat.
2. attrib. Of or relating to this virus; designating the disease caused by this virus (esp. in Ebola fever, Ebola haemorrhagic fever); of, relating to, or suffering from this disease.
1977Washington Post (Nexis) 11 Oct. a8 CDC scientists since the late 1960s have identified and isolated the viruses that caused three major, previously unknown diseases in Africa: Lassa Fever, Marburg Fever and Ebola Fever. 1983Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 77 731 Ebola and Marburg antibody prevalence rates were highest in the samples from Lodwar and Laisamis. 1989Rev. Infectious Dis. 11 (Suppl. 4) S790 (title) Firsthand clinical observations of hemorrhagic manifestations in Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Zaire. 1994R. Preston Hot Zone 217 You have this idea that a surgical mask and gown are all you need to handle an Ebola patient. 1996T. Clancy Executive Orders xi. 157 The casual African attitude toward those precautions had resulted in the first major Ebola outbreak in 1976. 2000J. Goodwin Danny Boy iii. 74 When the doctors went into the ebola ward..you should have seen the gear.
II. Simple uses.
3. Ebola virus; Ebola fever.
1977Lancet 12 Mar. 581 (title) After Marburg, Ebola. 1981Science 13 Feb. 620/2 A 2-year position available for a virologist/biochemist to continue studies on..Class 4 viruses, for example, Ebola, Marburg, Lassa. 1995Economist 20 May 15/1 Ebola is a terrifying illness. It kills quickly. 2000Denver Post 26 Nov. i. 17/1 Europe and America might be the next stops for Ebola.
Derivatives. Ebola-like adj. resembling Ebola virus or Ebola fever; spec. designating viruses belonging to the genus of filoviruses containing Ebola virus.
1990Science 30 Mar. 1538/3 (advt.) Some CDC scientists have stopped calling the new agent the Ebola virus and have begun referring to it merely as ‘*Ebola-like’. 1994Maclean's 31 Oct. 63/2 The Hot Zone describes in gruesome detail the torment suffered by a man infected by an Ebola-like virus in Kenya in 1980. 2000M. H. V. van Regenmortel et al. Virus Taxon. iii. 540 The particles of the ‘Marburg-like virus’ and the ‘Ebola-like viruses’ contain seven proteins. |