Acknowledgments
We acknowledge FAO, Bangladesh, and the Centre for Integrative Ecology at Deakin University, Australia, for their financial support. USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats support Ariful Islam and Shariful Islam PREDICT program (Cooperative Agreement No.AID‐OAA‐A‐14‐00102) through EcoHealth Alliance. We thank the Bangladesh Forest Department and the Ministry of Environment and Forest for permission to conduct this study. We thank Bilal, Kuto (CVASU), for their contributions to this study.
Conflict of interest: The authors have no conflict of interest.
Ethical statement: We conducted this study approved by the Animal Ethics Committee Burwood (AECB), Deakin University (ref number: AEX04-2016), Australia, and the Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee (ref. no. CVASU/Dir (R and E) AEEC/2015/02), Bangladesh.
Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6495-4637