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