A Mathematical Model with Quarantine States for the Dynamics of Ebola Virus Disease in Human Populations

Figure 1

Conceptual framework showing the relationships between the different compartments that make up the different population of individuals and actors in the case of an EVD outbreak. Susceptible individuals include false suspected and probable cases. True suspects and probable cases are confirmed by a laboratory test and the confirmed cases can later develop symptoms and die of the infection or recover to become immune to the infection. Humans can also die naturally or due to other causes. Nonquarantined cases can become quarantined through intervention strategies. Others run the course of the illness from infection to death without being quarantined. Flow from compartment to compartment is as explained in the text.