Ebolavirus

See also: ebolavirus and Ebola virus

Translingual

Zaire ebolavirus

Etymology

New Latin, from English Ebola River +‎ -virus. Reports conflict about who initially coined the name: either Karl Johnson of the American Centers for Disease Control^[1] or Belgian researchers.^[2]

Proper noun

Ebolavirus

A taxonomic genus within the family Filoviridae – the viral cause of Ebola fever, a human hemorrhagic fever with high mortality, causing epidemics commencing in tropical Africa.

Hypernyms

(genus): Riboviria - realm; Orthornavirae - kingdom; Negarnaviricota - phylum; Haploviricotina - subphylum; Monjiviricetes - class; Mononegavirales - order; Filoviridae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Zaire ebolavirus - type species; Bombali ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus - other species

References

Ebolavirus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ebolavirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Ebolavirus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Ebolavirus at International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

^ Preston, Richard (1995 July 20) The Hot Zone, Anchor Books (Random House), page 117: “Karl Johnson named it Ebola”
^ Bredow, Rafaela von, Hackenbroch, Veronika (2014 October 4) “'In 1976 I Discovered Ebola – Now I Fear an Unimaginable Tragedy'”, in The Observer‎^[1], Guardian Media Group

[hz-1] Preston, Richard (1995 July 20) The Hot Zone, Anchor Books (Random House), page 117: “Karl Johnson named it Ebola”

[observer-2] Bredow, Rafaela von, Hackenbroch, Veronika (2014 October 4) “'In 1976 I Discovered Ebola – Now I Fear an Unimaginable Tragedy'”, in The Observer‎^[1], Guardian Media Group

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