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ebola

/ɪˈboʊ.lə/
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1

A severe and often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses and characterized by high fever, severe internal bleeding, and organ failure.

Example

"Public health officials established isolation wards and contact-tracing protocols to contain the outbreak of Ebola."

2

Any of the filamentous, single-stranded RNA viruses of the genus Ebolavirus (family Filoviridae) native to equatorial Africa that cause Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

3

A river in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo that forms the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo River, near which the ebolavirus was first identified in 1976.

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Word Origin & Etymology

Named in 1976 after the Ebola River in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the village of Yambuku where the first recognized outbreak occurred.

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Wordmom. (2026). Definition of Ebola. In Wordmom Dictionary. Retrieved Nov 5, 2026, from https://wordmom.com/dictionary/ebola
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