About the Authors

Zhuojie Huang

seenhzj@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Xiao Wu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Andres J. Garcia

Affiliations Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Timothy J. Fik

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Andrew J. Tatem

Affiliations Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZH XW AJG TJF AJT. Analyzed the data: ZH XW AJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW TJF. Wrote the paper: ZH XW AJT.