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or less commonly Ebola fever
: the hemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus
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Testing also needs to be done to rule out other Ebola species and Marburg, a related virus that causes similar disease.
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Brittany Trang, STAT, 9 Aug. 2024
Raj Panjabi has made a career out of taking on some of public health’s toughest challenges, from malaria to Ebola to Covid-19 to mpox.
—Rachel Cohrs Zhang, STAT, 6 Aug. 2024
Too much of the focus so far has been limiting the damage after a pathogen has already made the jump from animals and begun to spread among people, like Ebola did in 2014, SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019 and bird flu is threatening to do, said Ann Linder, the report's lead author.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
Conducted during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, this adaptive trial allowed for a rapid and efficient evaluation of the treatment’s efficacy, highlighting the importance of adaptive design during public health emergencies.
—Raviv Pryluk and Mike Walsh, STAT, 12 July 2024
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Brittany Trang, STAT, 9 Aug. 2024
Raj Panjabi has made a career out of taking on some of public health’s toughest challenges, from malaria to Ebola to Covid-19 to mpox.
—Rachel Cohrs Zhang, STAT, 6 Aug. 2024
Too much of the focus so far has been limiting the damage after a pathogen has already made the jump from animals and begun to spread among people, like Ebola did in 2014, SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019 and bird flu is threatening to do, said Ann Linder, the report's lead author.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
Conducted during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, this adaptive trial allowed for a rapid and efficient evaluation of the treatment’s efficacy, highlighting the importance of adaptive design during public health emergencies.
—Raviv Pryluk and Mike Walsh, STAT, 12 July 2024
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Ebola
noun
Ebo·la
ē-ˈbō-lə 
: a serious often deadly disease that is caused by a virus found in Africa and is marked by fever, muscle aches, and bleeding inside the body
Medical Definition
Ebola
noun
Ebo·la
i-ˈbō-lə
ē-; ˈē-ˌbō-
ē-; ˈē-ˌbō-
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: the hemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus
called also Ebola fever
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