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Ebola virus
noun
- a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
Ebola virus
/ ĭ-ō′ə /
- A virus of African origin, belonging to the genus Filovirus , that causes a highly contagious infection characterized by fever, respiratory symptoms, bleeding, and sometimes central nervous system involvement with coma. In many patients there is progressive organ failure leading to death.
Example Sentences
Uganda has launched a trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, following an outbreak in the country that has killed one person and infected two others.
Unlike the more common Zaire Ebola virus, there is no approved vaccine for the Sudan strain.
They uncovered how certain viruses, including the deadly Ebola virus, manage to enter human cells.
The same platform has previously been used to identify how the Ebola virus enters cells.
While these structures have been shown to play a prominent role in promoting neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, HIV-1 and influenza, Dr. Shtanko is the first to investigate their role in disseminating Ebola virus.
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