The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is a highly contagious disease caused by the
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2). More than 18 million …

The goal of this book is to interest students of mathematics and public health professionals
in the modeling of infectious diseases transmission. We believe that some knowledge of …

The outbreak of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan and other cities of China is a
growing global concern. Delay in diagnosis and limited hospital resources lead to a rapid …

Mathematical tools called differential and integral operators are used to model real world
problems in all fields of science as they are able to replicate some behaviors observed in …

As of November 2015, the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic that began in West Africa in
late 2013 is waning. The human toll includes more than 28,000 EVD cases and 11,000 …

Contact tracing is an important control strategy for containing Ebola epidemics. From a
modeling perspective, explicitly incorporating contact tracing with disease dynamics …

We develop a multi-group epidemic framework via virtual dispersal where the risk of
infection is a function of the residence time and local environmental risk. This novel …

The variety of factors that contributed to the initial undetected spread of Ebola virus disease
in West Africa during 2013–2016 and the difficulty controlling the outbreak once the etiology …

We assess how presymptomatic infection affects predictability of infectious disease
epidemics. We focus on whether or not a major outbreak (ie an epidemic that will go on to …

The intuitive response to an invading pathogen is to start disease management as rapidly as
possible, since this would be expected to minimise the future impacts of disease. However …