Exploring the contribution of exposure heterogeneity to the cessation of the 2014 Ebola epidemic.
The unexpected early cessation of the recent West Africa Ebola outbreak demonstrated shortcomings of popular forecasting approaches and has not been fully understood yet. A popular hypothesis is that public health interventions mitigated the spread, such as ETUs and safe burials. We investigate whet...
Main Authors: | Florian Uekermann, Lone Simonsen, Kim Sneppen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210638 |
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