Ebola fever

English

Etymology

Named after the Ebola River.

Noun

Ebola fever (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) An extremely contagious and often fatal illness caused by the Ebola virus, characterised by fever and internal bleeding, contracted through infected body fluids.

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