About the Authors

Rebekah H. Borse

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

Current address: Merck & Co, Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Charisma Y. Atkins

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Manoj Gambhir

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Melbourne, Australia

Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Eduardo A. Undurraga

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

Current address: Escuela de Gobierno, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile

Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jesse D. Blanton

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

Affiliation Poxvirus And Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Emily B. Kahn

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jessie L. Dyer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Poxvirus And Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Charles E. Rupprecht

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Poxvirus And Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Martin I. Meltzer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

MMeltzer@cdc.gov

Affiliation Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center of Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. All authors contributed to this work whilst employees of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One author (RHB) now works at Merck, Inc. Another author (CER) is affiliated with the Wistar Institute. Both of these authors completed their contributions to this paper, except for reading of the final draft, before they left the U.S. CDC.