Virus of Africa

Usage examples of ebola.

Eugene Johnson, the civilian biohazard expert who was running the Ebola research program at the Institute, had a reputation for being a little bit wild.

They would have gotten footage of soldiers in space suits smeared with Ebola blood, engaged in the first major biohazard mission the world ever knew, and they would have gotten shots of biohazard buddies coming out into the staging area in pairs and being stripped of their suits by the supporting team.

She walked along a Biosafety Level 0 corridor, heading for a Level 4 biocontainment area known as AA-5, or the Ebola suite.

EBOLA VIRUS IS named for the EBOLA River, which is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo, or Zaire, River.

At work, she threw herself into the study of viral hemorrhagic fever, Ebola in particular.

Zabriski and the other two subsequent admissions had Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever.

Five more patients had been admitted during the night with a presumptive diagnosis of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever.

Given the fact that hemorrhagic fever could spread between strangers who shared a towel, or by the most casual close touch, Ebola made the AIDS scare seem like a tempest in a teapot.

Once started, it was generally felt that Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever would spread like wildfire to both friendly and hostile forces.

About five thousand types of virus are known, and between them they afflict us with many hundreds of diseases, ranging from the flu and common cold to those that are most invidious to human well-being: smallpox, rabies, yellow fever, ebola, polio, and the human immunodeficiency virus, the source of AIDS.

As with Ebola virus infections, humans are not a natural host for Lassa or the South American viruses.

Cyrill Dubchek of the Centers for Disease Control who had played a big role in localizing the Lassa Fever virus, had scoured the area, searching for a reservoir for the Ebola virus within mammals, birds, and insects.

She quickly scanned the entries for Lassa Fever, Marburg and Ebola virus.

Nancy wanted to see what had happened to the Ebola monkeys during the night.

He had infected several monkeys with Ebola virus, and he had been giving them various drugs to see if they would stop the Ebola infection.