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, 2025-03-09
  • What lessons from previous Ebola outbreaks are being applied now?
    — Jacqueline Weyer, Quartz Africa, 2021-02-27
  • An Ebola outbreak, for example, knows no borders and can easily travel on cruise ships.
    — Megan Wares, The Orlando Sentinel, 2025-03-29
  • 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, 2025-01-21
  • Total foreign aid, from the U.S. and others, picked up again when the Ebola outbreak began.
    — Mara Kardas-Nelson, The Dial, 2025-04-08
  • The incidence of malaria and Ebola, for example, worsens in such instances.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-05-13
  • Murthy helped lead the national response to global health issues including Ebola and the Zika virus.
    — Kaitlyn Schwanemann, NBC News, 2024-12-12
  • 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, 2023-10-03
  • The letter notes some recognizable threats, such as anthrax, tularemia, Ebola, plague, and botulism.
    — Ars Technica, 2025-01-20
  • It is considered far less fatal than Ebola or the Marburg virus, another hemorrhagic fever with a high death rate.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 2024-10-29
  • Our somewhat decentralized to Ebola response was initially a top-down approach.
    — Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 2025-03-11
  • 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, 2023-08-28
  • False rumors circulated on social media that Ebola had shown up and the National Guard had been called.
    — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 2023-09-07
  • The virus, which is in the same viral hemorrhagic fever category as Ebola, is rarely seen in the United States.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 2024-10-28
  • Well, the first thing to know is that measles is one of the most contagious diseases on Earth — more than Ebola, smallpox or just about any other infectious disease.
    — Alyson Hurt, NPR, 2025-02-28
  • 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, 2024-08-06
  • Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 2025-01-30
  • There, stung by diagnostic delays for diseases such as Ebola and Lassa fever, Happi has built a world-class genomic center.
    — Christie Wilcox, science.org, 2024-12-27
  • So have programs for monitoring and deploying rapid-response teams for contagious diseases such as an Ebola outbreak in Uganda.
    — Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 2025-02-05
  • 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, 2024-02-20
  • There are also new outbreaks of Ebola in Uganda’s capital and of the disease’s cousin, the Marburg virus, in Tanzania.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 2025-01-31
  • 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, 2024-02-29
  • Cuts to foreign aid have marooned HIV and malaria medications in ports and storage facilities; an Ebola outbreak has been left to swell and spread.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2025-03-21
  • His swift government work with a tech team came with mistakes, such as canceling the programs fighting an Ebola outbreak, and a flurry of lawsuits to stop federal employee layoffs and program cuts.
    — Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 2025-05-30
  • The agency typically would have aided in the response to a current Ebola outbreak in Uganda, providing support that doctors say helped prevent spread in past outbreaks.
    — Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 2025-05-06
  • 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, 2020-10-05
  • The center will be able to provide care for, receive and oversee patients with pathogen infections, including Ebola and Marburg virus disease, under this new designation.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Crucially, the war in eastern DRC also crippled the efforts to stem the spread of lethal diseases in a region already suffering from outbreaks of mpox, Ebola, cholera, malaria, and measles.
    — Jean Kaseya, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The timing couldn’t be possibly worse: Five years after the Covid pandemic began, the world now faces a surge of infectious disease outbreaks from dengue and malaria to Ebola and even a mysterious but deadly disease in Congo.
    — Jess Craig, Vox, 2025-03-16
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bushmeat has the potential to spread diseases like Ebola due to hunting, butchering, and processing meat from infected animals.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025

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