ArticlePLoS currents2016
Beyond Contact Tracing: Community-Based Early Detection for Ebola Response.
Article in PLoS currents, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- A history-dependent approach for accurate initial condition estimation in epidemic models.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Discontinuous epidemic transition due to limited testing.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Impact of contact tracing on COVID-19 mortality: An impact evaluation using surveillance data from Colombia.PloS one · 2021Article
- The Ebola outbreak, 2013-2016: old lessons for new epidemics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: simulation-based assessment of outbreak responses and postpeak strategies.System dynamics reviewArticle
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Abstract
introductionThe 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa raised many questions about the control of infectious disease in an increasingly connected global society. Limited availability of contact information made contact tracing diffcult or impractical in combating the outbreak.
methodsWe consider the development of multi-scale public health strategies that act on individual and community levels. We simulate policies for community-level response aimed at early screening all members of a community, as well as travel restrictions to prevent inter-community transmission.
resultsOur analysis shows the policies to be effective even at a relatively low level of compliance and for a variety of local and long range contact transmission networks. In our simulations, 40% of individuals conforming to these policies is enough to stop the outbreak. Simulations with a 50% compliance rate are consistent with the case counts in Liberia during the period of rapid decline after mid September, 2014. We also find the travel restriction to be effective at reducing the risks associated with compliance substantially below the 40% level, shortening the outbreak and enabling efforts to be focused on affected areas. DISCUSSION: Our results suggest that the multi-scale approach can be used to further evolve public health strategy for defeating emerging epidemics.
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