Comparing small world network and traditional models of Marburg virus disease
Abstract
Like Ebola, Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), formerly known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever, belongs to the deadly Filovirus family of viruses. It is transmitted among humans when an individual comes into contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. We model the spread of the Marburg virus disease u Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) epidemic model and a small-world network model. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends “community engagement as key to successfully controlling MVD outbreaks. Good outbreak control relies on applying a package of interventions, including infection prevention and control practices, surveillance and contact tracing and social mobilization". This paper highlights the need for a network based model over the traditional models to control the spread of MVD.
Copyright © 2021 Faraji Mohamed Tiraga, Lord Clifford Kavi, Nancy Ann Neudauer. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article
F. M. Tiraga, L. C. Kavi, N. A. Neudauer, Comparing small world network and traditional models of Marburg virus disease, J. Math. Comput. Sci. 11 (2021), 7773–7792. https://doi.org/10.28919/jmcs/5937
BibTeX
@article{Tiraga2021,
author = {Tiraga, Faraji Mohamed and Kavi, Lord Clifford and Neudauer, Nancy Ann},
title = {Comparing small world network and traditional models of Marburg virus disease},
journal = {J. Math. Comput. Sci.},
volume = {11},
year = {2021},
pages = {7773--7792},
doi = {10.28919/jmcs/5937}
}