Spatial and temporal dynamics of superspreading events in the 2014–2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic
Spatial and temporal dynamics of superspreading events in the 2014–2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic
Significance For many infections, some infected individuals transmit to disproportionately more susceptibles than others, a phenomenon referred to as “superspreading.” Understanding superspreading can facilitate devising individually targeted control measures, which may outperform population-level measures. Superspreading has been described for a recent Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak, but systematic characterizations of its …