Ebola fever
/iːˈbəʊlə/noun
mass noun
- an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus (Ebola virus), whose normal host species is unknown伊波拉热(一种通常致命的传染病, 以发烧和严重的内出血为特征, 通过接触伊波拉病毒感染的体液传染, 该病毒的寄主尚不明)。
词源
1976: named after a river in Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo), near which the disease was first observed.