Ba'al is also an ordinary common noun in Hebrew, a synonym of adon, but with a wider range of meanings. It may mean 'lord', 'master', 'owner', 'possessor', 'husband', or 'tyrant'. When used as a verb, it may mean 'he married', 'he ruled', or 'he rejected'.
The name Ebolavirus is derived from the Ebola River in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the location of the 1976 outbreak, and the taxonomic suffix-virus (denoting a viral genus). This genus was introduced in 1998 as the Ebola-like viruses.
There are five known strains of the Ebola virus, each named for the location of their first recorded outbreak. Ebola-Zaire was the first strain to raise alarm bells in 1976, when it infected 318 people in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 280.