About the Authors

Kenneth N. Cameron

kcameron@wcs.org

Affiliation Wildlife Health & Health Policy Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Patricia Reed

Affiliation Wildlife Health & Health Policy Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America

David B. Morgan

Affiliations Global Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alain I. Ondzié

Affiliation Wildlife Health & Health Policy Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Crickette M. Sanz

Affiliations Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Hjalmar S. Kühl

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Leipzig-Jena, Leipzig, Germany

Sarah H. Olson

Affiliations Wildlife Health & Health Policy Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Eric Leroy

Affiliation Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Institut de Recherches pour le Développement, Franceville, Gabon

William B. Karesh

Current address: EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Wildlife Health & Health Policy Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Roger Mundry

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KC PR DBM AO CMS WBK. Performed the experiments: KC PR AO. Analyzed the data: DBM CMS HSK RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL. Wrote the paper: KC PR DBM CMS HSK SHO WBK RM.