About the Authors

Paul Roddy

roddypd@gmail.com

Affiliation Medical Departments of Médecins Sans Frontières, Barcelona, Spain

Natasha Howard

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Maria D. Van Kerkhove

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Julius Lutwama

Affiliation Department of Arbovirology, Emerging, and Re-Emerging Viral Infections, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Joseph Wamala

Affiliation National Disease Control, Uganda Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

Zabulon Yoti

Affiliation Disease Surveillance and Response Cluster, World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Kampala, Uganda

Robert Colebunders

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp and Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Pedro Pablo Palma

Affiliation Medical Departments of Médecins Sans Frontières, Barcelona, Spain

Esther Sterk

Affiliation Medical Departments of Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Benjamin Jeffs

Affiliation Medical Departments of Médecins Sans Frontières, Barcelona, Spain

Michel Van Herp

Affiliation Medical Departments of Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium

Matthias Borchert

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: PR NH MDVK PPP ES BJ JL JW ZY RC MVH MB. Analyzed the data: PR NH MDVK MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR NH MDVK PPP ES BJ JL JW ZY RC MVH MB. Wrote the paper: PR NH MDVK PPP ES BJ JL JW ZY RC MVH MB.