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Ebola fever


Definition of Ebola fever

noun

[mass noun]
  • an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus ( Ebola virus), whose normal host species is unknown.

Origin:

1976: named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), near which the disease was first observed

Ebola fever in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Ebola fever in the US English dictionary

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