See Also: Ebola(dictionary)
Ebola(encyclopedia)
Ebola(dictionary)
ebola virus(medicine)
Ebola virus(health)
Ebola haemorrhagic fever(medicine)
haemorrhagic fever, ebola(medicine)
Fever, Ebola virus(health)

Ebola (iou)



Ebola noun. L20.
[The name of a river and district in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), where the disease was first observed in 1976.]
Used attrib. with reference to a tropical African filovirus that causes a severe, infectious, generally fatal haemorrhagic disease in humans. Esp. in Ebola fever, Ebola virus.