Topic: A Time-Delayed Epidemic Model for Ebola Disease Transmission

Speaker: Prof. Yuan Yuan, Memorial University of Newfoundland, MUN, Canada.

Time: May 24, 2016 4:00-5:00 PM

Address: Auditorium 145, Math & Statistics Building, New Campus

Synopsis: In this talk we propose a delayed mathematical model for the transmission of Ebola in humans. We consider the transmission of infection between the living humans and from infectious corpses to the living individuals in which the latent period of Ebola is incorporated. We identify the basic reproduction number R_0 for the model, prove that the disease-free equilibrium is always globally asymptotically stable when R_01. We show that the endemic steady state is locally asymptotically stable under certain condition and globally asymptotically stable in a special case of the model. Numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate and complement the theoretical results.