Summary of the parameters used in the disease transmission model as obtained from WHO and MoH (Uganda) briefings and reports as well as from relevant literature as indicated.
The incubation (infectious) period is defined as follows: where is the duration and is the probability that an infected (infectious) individual will have an incubation (infectious) period of days.
†The intercept of the linear model was estimated to be −2.94 [33]. §Estimated from Figure 1 in [44] for 10 days of symptoms. ¥Deaths per year: 2000: 2; 2001: 6; 2002: 6 ; 2003: 6 ; 2004: 8 ; 2005: 27