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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	noun • a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa
	32%	11		Collaborated with Soviet virologist Mikhail Chumakov
	noun • United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)
	32%	15		Swiss-French physician and virologist who discovered the bacteria responsible for the bubonic plague
	noun • French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943)

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