Predicting the combined effects of case isolation, safe funeral practices, and contact tracing during Ebola virus disease outbreaks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The recent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Uganda and the Marburg virus disease (MVD) in Ghana reflect a persisting threat of Filoviridae to the global health community. Characteristic of Filoviridae are not just their high case fatality rates, but also that corpses are highly contagious and prone to cause infections in the absence of appropriate precautions. Vaccines against the most virulent Ebolavirus species, the Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) are approved. However, there exists no approved vaccine or treatment against the Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV) which causes the current outbreak of EVD. Hence, the control of the outbreak relies on case isolation, safe funeral practices, and contact tracing. So far, the effectiveness of these control measures was studied only sep

SUBMITTER: Bouba A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9844901 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature