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A Hybrid One Health--Community Adaptive Framework Combined with Multi-Scale SEIHRD Modeling and Bayesian Inference for Rapid Suppression of the 2026 Bundibugyo Ebolavirus Outbreak in Conflict Zones

Domaine:

healthcare

Type de record:

softwarepaper
Créateur:
Shi
Éditeur:
Zenodo
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The May 2026 emergence of the rare Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and its rapid cross-border propagation into Uganda led to a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) declaration by the World Health Organization on May 17, 2026. This outbreak develops within a highly complex epidemiological and geopolitical landscape, characterized by active conflict, refugee displacement, and the absence of licensed vaccines or targeted therapeutics. This paper presents an innovative, highly integrated, multi-scale framework that explicitly couples zoonotic spillover dynamics and spatial human mobility across conflict-driven patches with a classical epidemiological compartmental structure (SEIHRD). By linking ecological surveillance (One Health) with bottom-up social mobilization, genomic sequencing, and humanitarian access negotiation strategies, we present a robust hybrid operational roadmap. Projections from our calibrated model demonstrate that executing this combined framework at Day 25 yields an estimated 88% reduction in overall outbreak size in the primary epicenter, successfully intercepts transboundary propagation to the secondary node, and suppresses the global reproduction number below the critical threshold (R₀ < 1). We derive the analytical basic reproduction number (R₀) under multi-patch coupling, formalize diagnostic cost-effectiveness trade-offs under severe resource limitations, and perform robust Bayesian parameter estimation using Metropolis-Hastings Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). A fully functional, self-contained Python architecture is provided to demonstrate the mathematical tractability and Popperian falsifiability of the framework, offering actionable guidelines for international response coordination.