About the Authors

Veerle Msimang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

veerlem@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations Epidemiology Section, Department of Production Animal Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Jacqueline Weyer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa, Centre for Viral Zoonoses, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Chantel le Roux

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Alan Kemp

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Felicity J. Burt

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Virology, National Health Laboratory Service, Bloemfontein, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Stefano Tempia

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Antoinette Grobbelaar

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Naazneen Moolla

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa

Melinda K. Rostal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Whitney Bagge

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Claudia Cordel

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ExecuVet (Pty) LTD, Bloemfontein, South Africa

William B. Karesh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Janusz T. Paweska

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

Affiliations Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, South Africa, Centre for Viral Zoonoses, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Peter N. Thompson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology Section, Department of Production Animal Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.