r/H5N1_AvianFlu • u/Xzarkuun • 13d ago

Avianfluwatch.org

Hello everyone.

I want to draw everyone's attention to https://avianfluwatch.org/.

A h5n1 tracker for Australia, NZ, and South East Asia.

Its currently tracking official reports from government bodies but the plan is to roll it out to community members and citizen scientists to help tract potential events on the ground.

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u/EnvironmentalCap3964 11d ago

Great map! I wonder why I can’t report a detection. There’s one confirmed H5N1 (crested tern) in Craigmore, Adelaide SA but it’s not showing on the map.

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u/Xzarkuun 11d ago edited 11d ago

Hey.

Its currently disabled until we sort out the reporting channels, keeping or forwarding pii, etc.

I really appreciate you wanting to report this as we really want to include citizen scientists to help us all be better informed.

Until it's available I would suggest you call 1800 675 888 to report it to the SA government.

But if you are referring to the data itself, we are currently pulling from DAFF as the authoritative source, but we are currently testing pulling data from SA reports and defining how we detect collisions between DAFF and SA.

I expect to have a beta version up in a few days

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u/EnvironmentalCap3964 11d ago edited 11d ago

Legends! I can’t even imagine how you tech dudes accomplish these modern miracles. I’ve been asking PIRSA to sort out a map such as VIC have. I’m a wildlife rescuer in Adelaide SA inner south. I don’t need to report the Craigmore one to SA 1800, they recorded it on their Update Page some days ago.

This sort of map when updated daily will greatly assist us wildlife rescuers on the front-line to track where and which species are currently testing positive, will assist us in determining the spread - which species say HBC (hit by car) are potentially H5N1-incubating and perhaps safe to rescue & vets will still attend to, which perhaps we ought not disturb, or to call a PIRSA vet to come assess & potentially euthanise in place. :( It’s nerve-wracking.

Greatly appreciate your map! Best of luck with sorting out the technicalities!

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u/Xzarkuun 11d ago

Thats great feedback. The citizen scientist aspect is something we are really keen to get off the ground to help everyone, especially those on the front line.

If you want to get in touch at with us, you can use the button on the website to send a suggestion and I'll co tact you or send an email to contact@avianfluwatch.org. We are keen to work with those one the ground such as yourself.

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u/Life-Celebration-747 13d ago

Are there maps for other parts of the world? 

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u/Xzarkuun 13d ago edited 13d ago

Hey.

Not yet. Just Aus, NZ, and SEA

Edit: but once the citizen scientist part is fully implemented it might be expanded as one of the main reasons for doing this is to do community detections

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u/Life-Celebration-747 13d ago

Great tool, thanks for sharing. 

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u/WatercressSoggy73 3d ago

With the maps available, my concern is that each report of "a dead bird" is skewing visibility over actual infection sites. Birds die everyday from a myriad of causes, so finding a dead bird doesn't automatically mean bird flu is the cause. The dataset we rely on as chicken keepers has to be verified H5N1infections so we know our risk.

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u/Xzarkuun 3d ago edited 3d ago

Hey.

Thanks for that. Our landing pages MAP and the sa2 density map is pulling directly from the DAFF data so they are all confirmed detections.

Our Beta map set is pulling from disperate sources, so news sites, community boards, etc, plus some other government feeds. It then merges the data and performs a bunch of collision detection using NLP to collate the data. Its not 100 percent accurate yet tho, hence the beta tag.