Relevant mathematics to the recent coronavirus outbreak
There is the whole discipline of math models of epidemics.
See, for example, Fitzgibbon, William E.(1-HST); Morgan, Jeffery J.(1-HST); Webb, Glenn F.(1-VDB); Wu, Yixiang(1-VDB) Spatial models of vector-host epidemics with directed movement of vectors over long distances. (English summary) Math. Biosci. 312 (2019), 77–87
and the references there.
Maybe relevant:
Yu Chen, Jin Cheng, Yu Jiang, Keji Liu, A Time Delay Dynamical Model for Outbreak of 2019-nCoV and the Parameter Identification, https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00418
The following paper is a little strange, since it dates back to 2015, but has some valuable data:
- A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence, Nature Medicine, 2015.