Assessing the impact of isolation on the transmission dynamics of Lassa Fever

A non-linear deterministic mathematical model of Lassa fever with isolation of infected individuals is formulated and analysed. The model is shown to be well posed mathematically and epidemiologically. We obtained an important threshold parameter called the basic reproduction number R0. The presented model is shown to exhibits three equilibrium points each of which is proved to be globally asymptotically stable under certain condition on the associated threshold parameter. We further shown by numerical simulations that isolation of infected humans reduces the number of infected individuals in a society and contain the spread of lassa fever disease.