How to Use Ebola in a Sentence

Ebola

noun
  • Tests for Ebola and the Marburg virus have come back negative so far.
    — Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Nigeria announced its first case of Ebola in more than a decade on Tuesday.
    — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, is the second-largest on record.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The outbreak is now the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded in the country.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
  • But fear of Ebola persists within her family and among her neighbors.
    — Constant Same Bagalwa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
  • As Ebola spreads across Africa, Kaseya warned against closing borders to contain it.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The current crisis should serve as a wake-up call, just as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa did a decade ago.
    — Stephanie Psaki, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2026
  • That’s about half of the total cases, with 6,186 confirmed to have Ebola.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
  • What lessons from previous Ebola outbreaks are being applied now?
    — Jacqueline Weyer, Quartz Africa, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the latest outbreak spreads across the region.
    — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The 2014 outbreak laid bare the risk of Ebola spreading in the region and beyond.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The rise in Ebola deaths as the outbreak has grown has moderated that view to a degree, Tedros noted.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The Ervebo vaccine is licensed to treat Ebola and has been effective in past outbreaks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2026
  • An Ebola outbreak, for example, knows no borders and can easily travel on cruise ships.
    — Megan Wares, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Political leaders are aware that the conflict is slowing progress in the Ebola response.
    — Stephanie Psaki, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The Ebola response has drawn funding from several countries, with the US as the largest donor.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Same with smallpox – eradicated from the entire globe because of a vaccine, and the same with Ebola and the same with measles, and on and on.
    — Michael B. Teiger, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Another participant said two of their family members had caught Ebola, and one of them had died.
    — Constant Same Bagalwa, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • That’s a quarter of the size of the West African Ebola outbreak, but that earlier outbreak ran for about two years.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Doctors isolated him and tests later confirmed Bundibugyo virus, a form of Ebola.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Ebola cases in Kenya have increased to nine, including four relatives of the first patient and four health workers.
    — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The incidence of malaria and Ebola, for example, worsens in such instances.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
  • Neighbors stayed away until Ebola responders came to take the sick to a clinic and disinfect their house afterward.
    — Constant Same Bagalwa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Kenya is the fourth country to record an Ebola case in the current outbreak, which was declared in eastern Congo in mid-May.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Murthy helped lead the national response to global health issues including Ebola and the Zika virus.
    — Kaitlyn Schwanemann, NBC News, 12 Dec. 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
  • If we are taken out of the equation, there is no way to nip Ebola in the bud in Africa, there is no way to stop mpox from getting on a plane and arriving on your shores.
    — Alice Park, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The problem wasn’t that the PCR tests had been wrong; after all, the patients did not have the strain of Ebola for which they were tested.
    — Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
  • This is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, with many people dying outside treatment centers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The letter notes some recognizable threats, such as anthrax, tularemia, Ebola, plague, and botulism.
    — Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025

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