About the Authors

Owais Fazal

Affiliation Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter J. Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, James A Baker III Institute of Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.