Table 3.

Parameter descriptions and values for Model 3

Parameters	Description	Value
N	Population size	200,000
βI	Transmission rate in the community (per day)	0.084
βH	Transmission rate in the hospital (per day)	0.1134
βF	Transmission rate at traditional funerals (per day)	1.093
1/α	Incubation period (days)	7
θ	Proportion of cases hospitalized	0.80
1/γh	Time from symptom onset to hospitalization (days)	5
1/γd	Time from symptom onset to death (days)	9.6
1/γi	Time from symptom onset to the end of infectiousness for survivors (days)	10
δ	Case fatality ratio	0.81
δ1	${\mathrm{\delta }}_1=\frac{\mathrm{\delta }{\gamma }_i}{\mathrm{\delta }{\gamma }_i+\left(1-\mathrm{\delta }\right){\gamma }_d}$	0.80
δ2	${\mathrm{\delta }}_2=\frac{\mathrm{\delta }{\gamma }_{\mathit{ih}}}{\mathrm{\delta }{\gamma }_{\mathit{ih}}+\left(1-\mathrm{\delta }\right){\gamma }_{\mathit{dh}}}$	0.80
1/γih	Infectious period for survivors (days)	5
1/γdh	Time from hospitalization to death (days)	4.6
1/γf	Time from death to funeral (days)	2
R0	Basic reproductive number	2.685

Parameter values are consistent with the 1995 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo [25]