Household demographic determinants of Ebola epidemic risk

[The ebola epidemic in West Africa and social determinants].

Sr. Editor. La epidemia de enfermedad por virus del Ébola que comenzó en diciembre de 2013, en la región occidental del África, es la número 25 que ha sufrido ese continente, y aunque muchas le han precedido, ninguna se le compara en magnitud y extensión: si comparamos los más de 26 000 casos de ébola ocurridos en estos 11 meses con los 425 casos registrados en el 2000 –cuando ocurrió la que er...

A review on West African Ebola epidemic dynamics models

Background and aims: The world is threatened by disease outbreak that reaches a public health emergency of international concern, studies to inform public and agencies for effective containment strategy are necessary. Several studies provided vital information of the dynamics and control of Ebola epidemic outbreak in West Africa. Methodologies and techniques in those researches...

Modeling household and community transmission of Ebola virus disease: Epidemic growth, spatial dynamics and insights for epidemic control

The mechanisms behind the sub-exponential growth dynamics of the West Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic could be related to improved control of the epidemic and the result of reduced disease transmission in spatially constrained contact structures. An individual-based, stochastic network model is used to model immediate and delayed epidemic control in the context of social contact networks an...

AIDS Epidemic Modeling With Different Demographic Structures

The most urgent public health problem today is to devise effective strategies to minimize the destruction caused by the AIDS epidemic. Mathematical models based on the underlying transmission mechanisms of the AIDS virus can help the medical/scientific community understand and anticipate its spread in different populations and evaluate the potential effectiveness of different approaches for bri...

Ebola epidemic outpacing response: MSF.