What is the name of the infectious agent (the microbe)?
It's simply called the Ebola virus. It's in the Filovirus family, which has five known members: Marburg, Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Reston, and Ebola Tai; genus Filoviridae.
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