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.
Ebola virus has caused the majority of human deaths from EVD, and is the cause of the 2013â2015 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, which has resulted in at least 28,502 suspected cases and 11,312 confirmed deaths.our of the five known ebolaviruses, including EBOV, cause a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other mammals, known as Ebola virus disease (EVD).