Ebola is a virus. It makes people extremely ill. The body can bleed from many places — the mouth, the eyes, inside the body — and a large share of people who catch it die. It spreads through close contact with an ill person’s blood or other body fluids, not through the air the way a cold does. Outbreaks have happened mainly in parts of Central and West Africa, near where the disease was first identified. News often says just ‘Ebola’ for both the virus and the illness; doctors may say Ebola virus disease. For most students it is a news word, not a daily-life word, but it is a serious one.

伊波拉（病毒）。中國大陸較常寫「埃博拉」。