Modeling ebola outbreak: a case study on 2014 outbreak in sierra leone

In recent time Sierra Leone has gone through the deadliest Ebola outbreak. In this paper, we modified the well-known Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Removed (SEIR) model to determine the effect of vaccination and hospitalization of individuals to control the epidemic. Using the publicly available data for Sierra Leone provided by the WHO, our results show that vaccination and hospitalizing people can be significantly helpful to control the epidemic. We also discussed optimal control problem to determine the effect of putting optimal control on hospitalization.