Citation: Erin N. Bodine, Connor Cook, Mikayla Shorten. The potential impact of a prophylactic vaccine for Ebola in Sierra Leone[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2018, 15(2): 337-359. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2018015
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