Figure 1. A schematic of the transitions between different states of our model for the EVD spreading in West Africa 2014 and their respective transition rates.

In the model, the population is divided into ten compartmental states (See Table S1): Susceptible (S) individuals who in contact with infected individuals can become exposed (E). These E individuals after the incubation period become infected and follow four different scenarios: (i) Infected individuals that will be cured—recovered—without hospitalisation (I_RNH); (ii) Infected individuals who will be cured (I_RH) after spending a period on a hospital (H_R); (iii) Infected individuals without being hospitalised (I_DNH) who will die and may infect other individuals in their funerals (F); and (iv) Infected individuals (I_DH) that even after spending a period in a hospital (H_D) will die and may also spread the infection in the funerals (F). Recovered individual (R), can be cured or dead.