How to Use Ebola virus in a Sentence
Ebola virus
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Our work highlights the need to more deeply investigate why the Ebola virus persists in the brain.
—Kevin Zeng, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The drug remdesivir, which was originally tested against the Ebola virus, can stop a virus from reproducing.
—Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2020
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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
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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
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The deadly Ebola virus has killed a significant number of the population in recent years.
—Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Feb. 2022
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People can spread the Ebola virus only after developing symptoms of illness.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
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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
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The Ebola virus is transmissible – but not as transmissible as some other infectious diseases, like Covid-19.
—Bethlehem Feleke, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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