Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever -- it can lead to bleeding inside and outside the body .
埃博拉病毒是一种出血热,它能导致人体的体内和体外出血。
Based on the medieval descriptions of the dark spots on the skin that gave the black death its name , they suggested the epidemic was actually a viral haemorrhagic fever , similar to modern ebola .
Ebola is unlikely to develop into a pandemic because of the difficulty of transmission , but its terrifyingly high fatality rate has caused countries to close their borders in order to prevent its spread .