Ebola

noun
🔊/iˈbəʊlə/
🔊/iˈbəʊlə/
(also Ebola fever
🔊/iˌbəʊlə ˈfiːvə(r)/
🔊/iˌbəʊlə ˈfiːvər/
)
[uncountable]
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  1. a very serious disease, caused by a virus, that causes internal parts of the body to lose blood and usually ends in death埃博拉热病(致命出血热,由病毒引起)Topics Illnessc2
    Word Origin1976: named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), near which the disease was first observed.