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n. - A severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by a virus.

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  • Get humans and gadgets packed together in too close a confines and Ebola is soon to follow.
  • Thumbcruncher, from what I read Ebola is too deadly and debilitating to pose much of a mass threat.
  • Ebola, which is the world's most deadly viral disease, kills up to 90 percent of those infected.
  • The World Health Organization calls Ebola "one of the most virulent viral diseases known to humankind."
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