About the Authors

Raymond Odinoh

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

raymond.odinoh@wsu.edu (RO); jdawa@cartafrica.org (JD)

These authors contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Washington State University Global Health Program, Nairobi, Kenya

Jeanette Dawa

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

raymond.odinoh@wsu.edu (RO); jdawa@cartafrica.org (JD)

These authors contributed equally to the work

Affiliations Washington State University Global Health Program, Nairobi, Kenya, Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Silvia Situma

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Situma, Luke Nyakarahuka, Luciana Lepore, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Kariuki Njenga

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

These authors contributed equally to the work

Affiliations Washington State University Global Health Program, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Animal Science, Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya

Luke Nyakarahuka

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Situma, Luke Nyakarahuka, Luciana Lepore, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Kariuki Njenga

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

These authors contributed equally to the work

Affiliations Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystems, and Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Luciana Lepore

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Situma, Luke Nyakarahuka, Luciana Lepore, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Kariuki Njenga

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

These authors contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Veerle Vanlerberghe

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Situma, Luke Nyakarahuka, Luciana Lepore, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Kariuki Njenga

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

These authors contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Carolyne Nasimiyu

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Washington State University Global Health Program, Nairobi, Kenya

Sheila Makiala

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Christian Ifufa

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Daniel Mukadi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Herve Viala

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Nicholas Owor

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Barnabas Bakamutumaho

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Deo Ndumu

Roles Investigation, Project administration

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Entebbe, Uganda

Justin Masumu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Robert F. Breiman

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

These authors also contributed equally to the work

Affiliations Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Infectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Kariuki Njenga

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Situma, Luke Nyakarahuka, Luciana Lepore, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Kariuki Njenga

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

These authors contributed equally to the work

Affiliations Washington State University Global Health Program, Nairobi, Kenya, Paul G Allen School of Global Health, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.