How to Use Ebola in a Sentence

Ebola

noun

• The most recent Ebola Sudan outbreak occurred in 2022, in Uganda.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Mar. 2024
• World health experts rank the virus as one of the deadliest diseases in history, right up there with such heavy hitters as Ebola, anthrax, plague and smallpox.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
• False rumors circulated on social media that Ebola had shown up and the National Guard had been called.
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• The incidence of malaria and Ebola, for example, worsens in such instances.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
• Within seconds, the two were exchanging insults and trading blows in a brawl that ended with both of them somehow contracting Ebola and dying.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• There is no mention of an Ebola outbreak on the official website or social media accounts for Burning Man.
  — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• What lessons from previous Ebola outbreaks are being applied now?
  — Jacqueline Weyer, Quartz Africa, 27 Feb. 2021
• But a literature review revealed other papers that warned of the potential for Ebola spillover events in Nigeria.
  — Irena Hwang, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2023
• The antiviral was previously used to treat Ebola patients.
  — Fox News, 9 June 2020
• The recent attention to contagious measles, tuberculosis, Ebola, and other illness outbreaks in the news has once more brought to light the threat that pandemics and bioterrorism pose.
  — Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• When those facts were stitched together with the false rumor that medical workers were spreading Ebola instead of trying to prevent people from dying from it, the workers were attacked.
  — Catherine Buerger, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
• Sierra Leone has also faced devastating epidemics, including Ebola in 2014 and the Covid pandemic.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 23 June 2023
• In fact, it was originally designed to treat Ebola and Hepatitis, diseases caused by other viruses, but it wasn’t found to be particularly effective against them.
  — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2020
• The Johnson & Johnson vaccine relies on the same technology used to develop vaccines for many other viruses, including Ebola.
  — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Her lab has shown how relentless news cycles that focus too heavily on the negatives, such as those around the 2014 Ebola crisis or mass shootings, can collectively traumatize the public and even elicit symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
  — Nsikan Akpan, National Geographic, 26 June 2020
• But as the sluggish response to Ebola laid bare, disease detection is only as good as the ability to connect data in real time, with experts saying that much of West African public health currently happens on disconnected pieces of paper.
  — Simar Bajaj and Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 9 Aug. 2023
• Annual funding of $31 billion for pandemic preparedness would save trillions in the kinds of losses experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic, and which occur annually on smaller scales with cholera, Ebola, and other outbreaks.
  — Vanessa Kerry, STAT, 31 May 2024
• Klain also served as the Ebola czar during the Obama administration, experience that underscores Biden's plan to focus his administration on the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout.
  — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2020
• Used successfully to control Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and Sierra Leone, ring vaccination involves quickly inoculating close contacts of index patients, thereby shutting down a virus’s path to the general population.
  — Dan Werb, Time, 11 July 2023

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024