Ebolavirus

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See also: ebolavirus and Ebola virus

Translingual

Zaire ebolavirus

Etymology

New Latin, from English Ebola River +‎ -virus. Reports conflict about who initially coined the name: either Karl Johnson of the American Centers for Disease Control[1] or Belgian researchers.[2]

Proper noun

Ebolavirus

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Filoviridae – the viral cause of Ebola fever, a human hemorrhagic fever with high mortality, causing epidemics commencing in tropical Africa.

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References

  1. ^ Preston, Richard (1995 July 20) The Hot Zone, Anchor Books (Random House), page 117: “Karl Johnson named it Ebola”
  2. ^ Bredow, Rafaela von, Hackenbroch, Veronika (2014 October 4) “'In 1976 I Discovered Ebola – Now I Fear an Unimaginable Tragedy'”, in The Observer‎, Guardian Media Group
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