Here is the material for the analysis of epidemic data: EpidemicData and the ZaireEbola1976 data
Here is the material for estimating the FOI and WAIFW matrices from serological data: EstimatingFOI and EstimatingWAIFW
And for the advanced topics: SeroAdvTopics
A paper on mixture models (there are more): Bollaerts et al. (Stat Mod 2012)
A paper on using social contact data to estimate transmission parameters for VZV: Goeyvaerts et al. 2010