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SUBMITTER: Pandey A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4316831 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pandey Abhishek A Atkins Katherine E KE Medlock Jan J Wenzel Natasha N Townsend Jeffrey P JP Childs James E JE Nyenswah Tolbert G TG Ndeffo-Mbah Martial L ML Galvani Alison P AP
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20141030 6212
The ongoing Ebola outbreak poses an alarming risk to the countries of West Africa and beyond. To assess the effectiveness of containment strategies, we developed a stochastic model of Ebola transmission between and within the general community, hospitals, and funerals, calibrated to incidence data from Liberia. We find that a combined approach of case isolation, contact-tracing with quarantine, and sanitary funeral practices must be implemented with utmost urgency in order to reverse the growth ...[more]