MCM: The Mathematical Contest in Modeling
ICM: The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling

PROBLEM A: Eradicating Ebola

The world medical association has announced that their new medication could stop Ebola and cure patients whose disease is not advanced. Build a realistic, sensible, and useful model that considers not only the spread of the disease, the quantity of the medicine needed, possible feasible delivery systems (sending the medicine to where it is needed), (geographical) locations of delivery, speed of manufacturing of the vaccine or drug, but also any other critical factors your team considers necessary as part of the model to optimize the eradication of Ebola, or at least its current strain. In addition to your modeling approach for the contest, prepare a 1-2 page non-technical letter for the world medical association to use in their announcement.

世界医学协会日前宣布，其新的药物可以阻止埃博拉病毒和治愈不严重的患者。因此，建立一个现实的、合理的，并且考虑制造的疫苗或药物的有用模型所涉及的方面，这不仅是这种疾病的传播、药物的所需要的数量、可能的可行运输系统（送要到所需的地方）、运输位置（给药地点）、制造的疫苗或药物的速度，但也可以是任何你的团队认为有必要为模型做贡献的其他关键因素，以便优化消灭埃博拉病毒或者至少抑制其目前治疗的压力。除了为大赛的建模方法，你的队伍还需要准备为世界医学协会发表公告的一份1-2页非技术性的信。

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