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noun
- Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- Ebola virus.
noun
- a severe infectious disease characterized by fever, vomiting, and internal bleedingCompare Marburg disease
virus, 1976, named for Ebola River valley in Congo, where it first was studied.
A highly lethal virus that causes massive internal hemorrhaging. It is thought that the virus originated in central Africa and was passed to humans from primates.