About Avian Flu Watch

Contributors

Epidemiologist - Dr. Hannah McClymont - ORCID ID - 0000-0002-2973-9015 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-mcclymont/

Engineer - Sheldon Uprichard - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheldon-uprichard/

Affiliations & Data Sources

Confirmed and presumptive surveillance events are drawn from official situation updates published by the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), and from WOAH/WAHIS via EMPRES-i.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) (Australia) — https://www.agriculture.gov.au/campaigns/birdflu
Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) (New Zealand) — https://www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity/pest-and-disease-threats-to-new-zealand/animal-disease-threats-to-new-zealand/bird-flu/about-bird-flu-and-the-risk-to-nz
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (WOAH/WAHIS) — https://www.fao.org/animal-health/animal-diseases/avian-influenza/dashboard/en
Map tiles & geocoding — Leaflet (https://leafletjs.com) and OpenStreetMap contributors

Acknowledgements

Events are extracted by natural language processing or via API where available.

Community reports are unverified until reviewed. They're shown as pending unless confirmed.

Further information

Seen a sick or dead bird, an unusual die-off, or livestock symptoms? Do not touch them. Record the location, take photos or videos and Report it at.

Australia - Call the 24-hour Emergency Animal Disease Hotline on 1800 675 888.

NZ - Biosecurity New Zealand Exotic Pest and Disease Hotline at 0800 80 99 66 or online via the MPI Reporting Portal.

Disclaimer

This is an independent project for public interest. The data is based on official H5N1 reports from DAFF, MPI, and WOAH. All reported data of detections may be revised, and species data, detection count may vary, and locations are approximations of the reported area.

Contact

This is a work in progress. We plan on adding community reports in the near future and optimise for mobile.

If you want to reach out to us - contact@avianfluwatch.org

Definitions

Mass Mortality Event - 20 or more deaths in a single event

Significant Event - 10-20 combined Sickness/Deaths in one event

NLP - Natural Language Processing

Bird flu by state: South Australia Victoria New South Wales Queensland Western Australia Tasmania Northern Territory ACT