thread virus

thread virus
thread virus,
one of various viruses causing hemorrhagic fever, such as the Ebola virus or Marburg virus: »

The virulent thread viruses may in a day or two kill one in four, or up to nine in 10, depending on the filovirus subtype (Scientific American).


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