  Motivated by recent outbreaks of the Ebola Virus, we are concerned with the
role that a vector reservoir plays in supporting the spatio-temporal spread of
a highly lethal disease through a host population. In our context, the
reservoir is a species capable of harboring and sustaining the pathogen. We
develop models that describe the horizontal spread of the disease among the
host population when the host population is in contact with the reservoir and
when it is not in contact with the host population. These models are of
reaction diffusion type, and they are analyzed, and their long term asymptotic
behavior is determined.
