Modeling the transmission dynamics of Ebola virus disease in Liberia

ZQ **a, SF Wang, SL Li, LY Huang, WY Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Ebola virus disease (EVD) has erupted many times in some zones since it was first found in
1976. The 2014 EVD outbreak in West Africa is the largest ever, which has caused a large …

Modeling the effect of comprehensive interventions on Ebola virus transmission

M Shen, Y **ao, L Rong - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Since the re-emergence of Ebola in West Africa in 2014, comprehensive and stringent
interventions have been implemented to decelerate the spread of the disease. The …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the role of public health education in Ebola virus disease outbreaks in Sudan

B Levy, C Edholm, O Gaoue, R Kaondera-Shava… - Infectious Disease …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Public involvement in Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) prevention efforts is key to
reducing disease outbreaks. Targeted education through practical health information to …

A mathematical investigation of vaccination strategies to prevent a measles epidemic

RK Smith, A Archibald, E MacCarthy… - The North Carolina …, 2016 - libjournal.uncg.edu
The purpose of this project is to quantitatively investigate vaccination strategies to prevent
measles epidemics. A disease model which incorporates susceptible, vaccinated, infected …

Forecasting and uncertainty in modeling the 2014-2015 ebola epidemic in west africa

MC Eisenberg, JNS Eisenberg, JP D'Silva… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest ever recorded, with over 27,000 cases and
11,000 deaths as of June 2015. The public health response was challenged by difficulties …

Dynamics of ebola epidemics in west africa 2014

RJ Evans, M Mammadov - F1000Research, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This paper investigates the dynamics of Ebola virus transmission in West Africa during 2014.
The reproduction numbers for the total period of epidemic and for different consequent time …

Inverse problems and ebola virus disease using an age of infection model

A Smirnova, L DeCamp, H Liu - … and Statistical Modeling for Emerging and …, 2016 - Springer
Parameter estimation problems in ordinary and partial differential equations constitute a
large class of models described by ill-posed operator equations. A considerable number of …

[PDF][PDF] Exposing the origins of the Ebola outbreak: urging for a shift in response from reactive to proactive

A Akhtar, E Befkadu, P Basu, P Kumar - Am J Infect Dis Microbiol, 2014 - researchgate.net
Abstract On August 8, 2014, the World Health Organization established that the current
Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling surveillance and interventions in the 2014 Ebola epidemic

MC Eisenberg, JN Eisenberg, JP D'Silva… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2015 - researchgate.net
Abstract The 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest ever recorded, and
understanding the interrelated dynamics of surveillance and intervention is a key concern …

Predicting and controlling the dynamics of infectious diseases

RJ Evans, M Mammadov - 2015 54th IEEE Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new optimal control model to describe and control the dynamics of
infectious diseases. In the present model, the average time to isolation (ie hospitalization) of …