How to Use filovirus in a Sentence
filovirus
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Marburg is caused by a filovirus, the broad family to which Ebolaviruses belong.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 June 2026
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Orthoebolaviruses are Ebola-causing members of a family of viruses called filoviruses, which also include the Marburg virus.
—Claire Maldarelli, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
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That means investing in pan-filovirus diagnostics capable of detecting every pathogenic Ebola virus species.
—Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 10 Aug. 2026
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Moderna said its Bundibugyo candidate builds on more than a decade of mRNA platform research and years of work designing mRNA vaccines against filoviruses.
—Paul Adepoju, Scientific American, 14 June 2026
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The infrastructure built after 2014 — the RESPTC network, NETEC, the Health Alert Network, CDC’s laboratory capacity for rare filovirus subtypes like the Bundibugyo Ebola strain — exists precisely for this moment.
—Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
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