Ebola fever
/iːˈbəʊlə
/ /əˈbəʊlə /noun [mass noun]
An infectious and frequently fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus (Ebola virus), whose normal host species is unknown: he developed symptoms similar to those of Ebola and sought medication at the hospital an outbreak of Ebola fever in the country may have killed up to 36 people...
- A severe haemorrhagic fever akin to Ebola, the Marburg virus spreads on contact with body fluids such as blood, urine, excrement, vomit and saliva.
- And the most devastating infection in the world is not Ebola or Lyme disease, West Nile virus or even HIV, but tuberculosis.
- Then came Herpes simplex, Hepatitis B and C, HIV, Ebola, West Nile virus, and others.
Origin
1976: named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), near which the disease was first observed.
Rhymes
- lipoidosis
- lipolysis
- lipolytic
- lipoma
- lipophilic
- lipopolysaccharide
- lipoprotein
- liposculpture
- liposome
- liposuction
- lipotrophin
- lipotropin
- lipovitellin
- lipped
- Lippes loop
- lippie
- Lippi, Filippino
- Lippi, Fra Filippo
- Lippizaner
- Lippmann, Gabriel Jonas
- Lippmann, Walter
- lippy
- lip-read
- lip-reader
- lip salve