How to Use Ebola virus in a Sentence

Ebola virus

noun

• Our work highlights the need to more deeply investigate why the Ebola virus persists in the brain.
  — Kevin Zeng, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2022
• Over the years, Fort Detrick has housed some of the world’s deadliest substances, from the Ebola virus to nerve gas to anthrax.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 21 July 2021
• Marburg virus is a zoonotic virus that, along with the six species of Ebola virus, comprises the filovirus family, the CDC said.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
• Two decades on, Ebola virus now has been created in the lab, and so has a close relative of smallpox, horsepox.
  — Janika Schmitt, STAT, 10 July 2023
• Last month authorities in Congo said a new case of the Ebola virus in the eastern city of Beni was linked to a previous outbreak.
  — Rodney Muhumuza, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022
• But during the west African epidemic, Ebola virus lived in the semen of some survivors for a much longer time, more than a year after acute infection.
  — Seema Yasmin, Scientific American, 29 Feb. 2016
• Uganda appears to have defeated a recent outbreak of the Sudanese variant of the Ebola virus of which there is no vaccine.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• The government has introduced a three-week lockdown around the epicenter of the outbreak of the Sudan variant of the Ebola virus in central Uganda.
  — Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
• The world has seen polio outbreaks before, for instance, as well as monkeypox clusters and cases of Marburg, a cousin of the deadly Ebola virus.
  — Time, 15 Sep. 2022
• The drug remdesivir, which was originally tested against the Ebola virus, can stop a virus from reproducing.
  — Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2020
• This is the first Ebola Sudan outbreak in a decade, presenting a rare opportunity to test a vaccine for this species of Ebola virus.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
• But Ghebreyesus said Wednesday a clinical trial of vaccines to combat the Sudan species of the Ebola virus could start within weeks.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2022
• The deadly Ebola virus has killed a significant number of the population in recent years.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Feb. 2022
• People can spread the Ebola virus only after developing symptoms of illness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• After outbreaks of Ebola Zaire, studies showed that infectious Ebola virus can hide out in areas where foreign invaders don’t seem to trigger immune responses.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• The Ebola virus is transmissible – but not as transmissible as some other infectious diseases, like Covid-19.
  — Bethlehem Feleke, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• The breakthroughs included figuring out the structure of a protein that enables the Ebola virus to enter cells, a finding that has aided pharmaceutical companies.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
• But the transfer is plausible given, for example, that many fruit bat species—some of which are implicated as natural reservoirs of Ebola virus—are migratory, and may migrate over large distances.
  — Jacqueline Weyer, Quartz Africa, 27 Feb. 2021
• The Ebola virus attacks cells in the immune system, prompting them to produce chemicals that damage blood vessels and trigger coagulation; during an outbreak, the virus can kill half of the people infected, sometimes more.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• But state officials and infectious diseases experts told doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms consistent with Ebola virus infection among people who have traveled recently to Uganda.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• The research facility is described as having a campus in California and Florida involved in the development of virus treatments and vaccines, including research for a vaccine for the Ebola virus.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
• Texas Biomed officials said the primates at its campus have helped produce significant advancements, including a neonatal high-frequency ventilator, a hepatitis B vaccine, a cure for hepatitis C and a vaccine for the Ebola virus.
  — Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024