Methods: The MaxEnt software, a machine learning modeling approach that uses presence-
only data was used to establish filovirus–environmental relationships. Presence-only data
for filovirus outbreaks were collected from the field and online sources. Environmental
covariates from Africlim that have been downscaled to a nominal resolution of 1km x 1km
were used. The final model gave the relative probability of the presence of filoviruses in the
study area obtained from an average of 100 bootstrap runs. Model evaluation was carried …