An Ecological Assessment of the Pandemic Threat of Zika Virus

Colin J. Carlson; Eric R. Dougherty; Wayne Getz

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004968

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An Ecological Assessment of the Pandemic Threat of Zika Virus

Colin J. Carlson ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Colin J. Carlson, Eric R. Dougherty

* E-mail: cjcarlson@berkeley.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Eric R. Dougherty ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Colin J. Carlson, Eric R. Dougherty

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Wayne Getz

Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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An Ecological Assessment of the Pandemic Threat of Zika Virus

Colin J. Carlson,
Eric R. Dougherty,
Wayne Getz

Published: August 26, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004968
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About the Authors

Colin J. Carlson

Contributed equally to this work with: Colin J. Carlson, Eric R. Dougherty

* E-mail: cjcarlson@berkeley.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Eric R. Dougherty

Contributed equally to this work with: Colin J. Carlson, Eric R. Dougherty

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Wayne Getz

Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

The author have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CJC. Data curation: CJC. Formal analysis: ERD CJC. Methodology: CJC ERD. Software: CJC ERD. Validation: ERD CJC. Visualization: ERD CJC. Writing - original draft: CJC ERD WG. Writing - review & editing: CJC ERD WG.

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