Research Article
Modelling the Potential Role of Media Campaigns in Ebola Transmission Dynamics
Table 2
Parameter values and their description.
| Parameters | Description (per day) | Range | Source |
| | Recruitment rate | | Estimated | | Probability for a contact to be infectious | | [7] | | Number of contacts | | Estimated | | Rate of exposed individuals becoming infectious | | [5] | | Natural death rate | 0.2 | Estimated | | Proportion of asymptomatic infected individuals | | [7] | | Rate of asymptomatic individuals becoming symptomatic | 0.12 | [6] | | Disease related death rate | | [1] | | Disposal rate of dead bodies | 0.497 | [16] | | Recovery rate of asymptomatic individuals | | Estimated | | Recovery rate of symptomatic individuals | | [5] | | Rate of messaging by susceptible individuals | | Estimated | | Rate of messaging by exposed individuals | | Estimated | | Rate of messaging by infected asymptomatic individuals | | Estimated | | Rate of messaging by infected symptomatic individuals | | Estimated | | Rate of messaging by recovered individuals | | Estimated | | Outdating rate of media campaigns | | [17] |
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