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Volume 22, Number 1—January 2016

Dispatch

Effectiveness of Ring Vaccination as Control Strategy for Ebola Virus Disease

Adam J. KucharskiComments to Author , Rosalind M. Eggo, Conall Watson, Anton Camacho, Sebastian Funk, and W. John Edmunds
Author affiliations: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

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Figure 1

Outbreak dynamics in a model of transmission of Ebola virus disease. A) Chains of transmission generated in a simulated outbreak starting with 2 infected persons on March 1, 2014. Black circles indicate the index case within each cluster, and arrows indicate routes of transmission. Within each cluster, we assumed that there was a 15% probability that a secondary case would be missed and would instead seed a new cluster (these missed links are not shown). B) New cases per week, by date of symptom

Figure 1. Outbreak dynamics in a model of transmission of Ebola virus disease. A) Chains of transmission generated in a simulated outbreak starting with 2 infected persons on March 1, 2014. Black circles indicate the index case within each cluster, and arrows indicate routes of transmission. Within each cluster, we assumed that there was a 15% probability that a secondary case would be missed and would instead seed a new cluster (these missed links are not shown). B) New cases per week, by date of symptom onset, for the chains of transmission shown in panel A. Colors of clusters in panel A match colors of bars in panel B. C) Observed weekly confirmed and probable cases reported in Conakry Prefecture, Guinea, during March–September 2014. Data were obtained from the Guinea Ministry of Health and World Health Organization Situation Reports (11).

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