In the January 2015 issue of the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, Dr. Ira Longini and colleagues published an article entitled “Vespignani A: Spatio-temporal spread of the 2014 outbreak of Ebola in Liberia and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: a computational modelling analysis.”
As stated in the aritcle’s abstract, “The 2014 epidemic of Ebola virus disease in parts of west Africa defines an unprecedented health threat. We developed a model of Ebola virus transmission that integrates detailed geographical and demographic data from Liberia to overcome the limitations of non-spatial approaches in projecting the disease dynamics and assessing non-pharmaceutical control interventions.”