Ebola virus disease

ST Jacob, I Crozier, WA Fischer, A Hewlett… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe and frequently lethal disease caused by Ebola virus
(EBOV). EVD outbreaks typically start from a single case of probable zoonotic transmission …

Current epidemiological and clinical features of COVID-19; a global perspective from China

H Tu, S Tu, S Gao, A Shao, J Sheng - The COVID-19 reader, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and represents a potentially fatal disease of great global public …

Phase-adjusted estimation of the number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in Wuhan, China

H Wang, Z Wang, Y Dong, R Chang, C Xu, X Yu… - Cell discovery, 2020 - nature.com
An outbreak of clusters of viral pneumonia due to a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/SARS-
CoV-2) happened in Wuhan, Hubei Province in China in December 2019. Since the …

[PDF][PDF] A discrete stochastic model of the COVID-19 outbreak: Forecast and control

S He, S Tang, L Rong - Math. Biosci. Eng, 2020 - aimspress.com
The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading and has caused a large-scale infection in
China since December 2019. This has led to a significant impact on the lives and economy …

Early evidence on social distancing in response to COVID-19 in the United States

M Andersen - Available at SSRN 3569368, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow in the United States and, in the absence of a
vaccine or effective treatment, social distancing measures are essential to slow the spread of …

Public health and public trust: Survey evidence from the Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in Liberia

RA Blair, BS Morse, LL Tsai - Social science & medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Trust in government has long been viewed as an important determinant of citizens'
compliance with public health policies, especially in times of crisis. Yet evidence on this …

Mathematical models to characterize early epidemic growth: A review

G Chowell, L Sattenspiel, S Bansal, C Viboud - Physics of life reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
There is a long tradition of using mathematical models to generate insights into the
transmission dynamics of infectious diseases and assess the potential impact of different …

Measurability of the epidemic reproduction number in data-driven contact networks

QH Liu, M Ajelli, A Aleta, S Merler… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The basic reproduction number is one of the conceptual cornerstones of mathematical
epidemiology. Its classical definition as the number of secondary cases generated by a …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the reproduction number of Ebola virus (EBOV) during the 2014 outbreak in West Africa

CL Althaus - PLoS currents, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The 2014 Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in West Africa is the largest outbreak of the genus
Ebolavirus to date. To better understand the spread of infection in the affected countries, it is …

Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola virus disease (EVD): a review

G Chowell, H Nishiura - BMC medicine, 2014 - Springer
The complex and unprecedented Ebola epidemic ongoing in West Africa has highlighted the
need to review the epidemiological characteristics of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as well as …