About the Authors

Alpha Forna

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alpha.forna@uga.edu

Affiliations Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Lambodhar Damodaran

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Christian E. Gunning

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Parnian Rahimi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Influenza Disease & Emergence Research (CIDER), Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Aarya Venkat

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Natarajan Kannan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Rebecca Kondor

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Justin Bahl

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing, Investigation, Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliations Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Influenza Disease & Emergence Research (CIDER), Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Pejman Rohani

Contributed equally to this work with: Pejman Rohani, John M. Drake

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Influenza Disease & Emergence Research (CIDER), Athens, Georgia, United States of America

John M. Drake

Contributed equally to this work with: Pejman Rohani, John M. Drake

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Influenza Disease & Emergence Research (CIDER), Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.