The impact of control strategies and behavioural changes on the elimination of Ebola from Lofa County, Liberia
Reports a time line of events and estimates the time-varying transmission intensity using a mathematical model of Ebola transmission
Abstract
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa was stopped by an enormous concerted effort of local communities and national and international organizations. It is not clear, however, how much the public health response and behavioural changes in affected communities, respectively, contributed to ending the outbreak. We analyse the epidemic in Lofa County, Liberia, lasting from March to November 2014, by reporting a comprehensive time line of events and estimating the time-varying transmission intensity using a mathematical model of Ebola transmission.
This research was supported by the Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme
Citation
Funk S, Ciglenecki I, Tiffany A, et al. The impact of control strategies and behavioural changes on the elimination of Ebola from Lofa County, Liberia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 2017 May;372(1721). DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0302.