Ebola disease, also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a deadly infectious disease caused by ebolaviruses within the genus Ebolavirus in the family Filoviridae of -ssRNA viruses. Four ebolavirus are known to cause Ebola, and a related virus in Filoviridae causes Marburg disease. The first ebolavirus was discovered in 1976 in South Sudan.
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Viral infectious disease
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Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain zoonotic viral diseases
1D60 Filovirus disease
H00283 Ebola disease
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by -ssRNA viruses
H00283 Ebola disease