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
• The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, is the second-largest on record.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The incidence of malaria and Ebola, for example, worsens in such instances.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
• 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
• It is considered far less fatal than Ebola or the Marburg virus, another hemorrhagic fever with a high death rate.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
• These camps are already struggling with high levels of malaria, measles, and cholera, and there is a growing risk that Ebola will begin to circulate inside them, too.
  — Stephanie Psaki, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2026
• Bodies of those who died of Ebola can be highly contagious and lead to further spread when people prepare them for burial and gather for funerals.
  — Jean-Yves Kamale, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
• 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, 28 Aug. 2023
• False rumors circulated on social media that Ebola had shown up and the National Guard had been called.
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Without grants, scientists are unable to start any new research, from asthma and pediatric cancer to Covid and Ebola.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2025
• Tests for malaria and typhoid fever came back negative, as did PCR tests for the common Zaire strain of Ebola.
  — Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
• The virus, which is in the same viral hemorrhagic fever category as Ebola, is rarely seen in the United States.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
• 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, 28 Feb. 2025
• It is concentrated in Ituri province and is known to be the deadliest of all past 17 Ebola outbreaks in the country.
  — ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026
• Testing also needs to be done to rule out other Ebola species and Marburg, a related virus that causes similar disease.
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 9 Aug. 2024