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- proper noun The Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- noun The
Ebola virus - noun
Ebola fever
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa
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Examples
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The virus, a sub-type of Ebola virus [_Ebola Reston virus_ is now ranked as a distinct virus species in the genus
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The virus, a sub-type of Ebola virus [_Ebola Reston virus_ is now ranked as a distinct virus species in the genus
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Thumbcruncher, from what I read Ebola is too deadly and debilitating to pose much of a mass threat.
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Get humans and gadgets packed together in too close a confines and Ebola is soon to follow.
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Get humans and gadgets packed together in too close a confines and Ebola is soon to follow.
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Level 4 labs are designed to enable researchers to work safely with dangerous and exotic pathogens (Ebola is the best-known example) for which no vaccine or effective treatment exists.
What's it like in Level 4? ewillett 2007
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But the word Ebola is more frightening than influenza, so accidents like this have to be contained in two ways: medically and via the public relations spin machine.
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Ebola is way too deadly and kill people so fast that it shut down it’s one propagation by creating a vacuum of host arround the infection point.
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Ebola is frightening not only because it’s an awful way to die, but because there has been no effective treatment.
A treatment for Ebola? ewillett 2010
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Ebola is frightening not only because it’s an awful way to die, but because there has been no effective treatment.
A treatment for Ebola? ewillett 2010
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