filovirus

IPA: fˈɪɫoʊvˈaɪrʌs

Examples of "filovirus" in Sentences

So the huggable, squeezable, soft plush filovirus is right out?
The filovirus is nice, but personally, I've always preferred parasites.
"We need to identify it because once a filovirus hits humans, it can be deadly."
Yeah, okay, 'talk to the filovirus' doesn't have the same ring, I know... and I've really got to get off this microbe thing.
Studies to identify the reservoir of Marburg virus, a closely related filovirus are being conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Dot indicates significant viral outbreakEbola (filovirus) With a fatality rate of up to 90 percent, it killed hundreds in Zaire and western Sudan in 1976 and 1979.
Marburg (filovirus) Closely related to Ebola, this virus was identified in 1967 when 31 people were infected in West Germany and Yugoslavia by Ugandan green monkeys. 7 died.
Ebola and the Marburg virus are the two main categories of so-called filovirus which causes haemorrhagic fever (VHF), a disease dubbed a "slate-wiper" for its extreme lethality.
It suggests that these species, which maintain a filovirus infection without negative health consequences, could have selectively maintained these so-called "fossil" genes as a genetic defense.
Had the then-67-year-old Hoffman — who brought mainstream culture face to face with autism in Rain Man and went mano a mano with an Ebola-like filovirus in Outbreak — never quite broken character from his 1982 film Tootsie?