Ebolavirus

ebolavirus Ebola virus Translingual thumb|Zaire ebolavirus Etymology mul la-new -, from mul Ebola River -virus en. Reports conflict about who initially coined the name: either Karl Johnson of the American Centers for Disease ControlThe Hot Zone Preston Richard Richard Preston 117 Karl Johnson named it Ebola Anchor Books (Random House) July 20, 1995 or Belgian researchers.http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/ebola-zaire-peter-piot-outbreak 'In 1976 I Discovered Ebola – Now I Fear an Unimaginable Tragedy' Bredow Rafaela von Hackenbroch Veronika The Observer Guardian Media Group 4 October 2014 Proper noun 1 n genus family Filoviridae 1 the viral cause of Ebola fever, a human hemorrhagic fever with high mortality, causing epidemics commencing in tropical Africa Hypernyms genus Hyponyms genus Zaire ebolavirus species - type species; Bombali ebolavirus species, Bundibugyo ebolavirus species, Reston ebolavirus species, Sudan ebolavirus species, Tai Forest ebolavirus species - other species References 1 1 1 201901564