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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Enanoria WT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4618845 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20151020 10
The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak is the largest and most widespread to date. In order to estimate ongoing transmission in the affected countries, we estimated the weekly average number of secondary cases caused by one individual infected with Ebola throughout the infectious period for each affected West African country using a stochastic hidden Markov model fitted to case data from the World Health Organization. If the average number of infections caused by one Ebola infection is less than 1.0, the ...[more]