Ebolavirus
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See also: ebolavirus and Ebola virus
Translingual[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- (genus): Riboviria - realm; Orthornavirae - kingdom; Negarnaviricota - phylum; Haploviricotina - subphylum; Monjiviricetes - class; Mononegavirales - order; Filoviridae - family
Hyponyms[edit]
- (genus): Zaire ebolavirus - type species; Bombali ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus - other species
References[edit]
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