How to Use Ebola in a Sentence
Ebola
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Tests for Ebola and the Marburg virus have come back negative so far.
—Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2025
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What lessons from previous Ebola outbreaks are being applied now?
—Jacqueline Weyer, Quartz Africa, 27 Feb. 2021
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An Ebola outbreak, for example, knows no borders and can easily travel on cruise ships.
—Megan Wares, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2025
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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
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The incidence of malaria and Ebola, for example, worsens in such instances.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
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Murthy helped lead the national response to global health issues including Ebola and the Zika virus.
—Kaitlyn Schwanemann, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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The letter notes some recognizable threats, such as anthrax, tularemia, Ebola, plague, and botulism.
—Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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False rumors circulated on social media that Ebola had shown up and the National Guard had been called.
—Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Her work included a deployment to Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis.
—USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
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There is no mention of an Ebola outbreak on the official website or social media accounts for Burning Man.
—Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
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But a literature review revealed other papers that warned of the potential for Ebola spillover events in Nigeria.
—Irena Hwang, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2023
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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, 6 Aug. 2024
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At the end of January, samples taken from patients all tested negative for Ebola and Marburg.
—Reuters, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
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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, 27 Dec. 2024
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The most recent Ebola Sudan outbreak occurred in 2022, in Uganda.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Mar. 2024
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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, 31 Jan. 2025
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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, 29 Feb. 2024
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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, 21 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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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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