As is to be expected, one of the most popular GIS requests that I have received lately (especially last Spring semester) are data resources concerning the H5N1 Wild Bird flu virus. There are some great resources out there, the best that I am aware of I will list below.Earlier this summer, a student researching the epidemiology of the virus needed a shapefile of the common worldwide migratory bird flyways. I was unable to locate such a shapefile. If someone knows of such an available file (free or not) out there, please leave a comment here to let me know about it. However, we were able to locate several static maps (images) of migratory bird flyways. I advised the student on how to georeference and digitize such a static map to create a feature class. Unfortunately I have not heard back from the student since then so I do not know if they were successful.
Just last week, the Introduction to GIS course that I am teaching came to the section on georeferencing and digitizing. Instead of using a historical (scanned) map of Texas for the class exercise as I normally assign, they worked on creating a feature class of the migratory bird flyways shown on the H5N1 outbreaks in 2005 and major flyways of migratory birds map. This map was created by the UN: Food and Agriculture Organization.
Here is the best digitized migratory bird path of the lot. (Yes, the student gave permission for her files to be uploaded.)
- Personal geodatabase
- Shapefile
- Google Earth KMZ (created using Arc2Earth)
- Google Earth Maps of Avian Flu Spread
- Declan Butler, reporter for Nature, has created a super-fantastic Google Earth resource. These freely available KML files contain both human and poultry cases of avian flu. More information can be found on Declan's blog.
- Public ArcIMS Services
- Global Resource Information Database (GRID-Nairobi)
- Feature classes containing avian influenza cases in humans by influenza type by country.
- ArcIMS Server: http://gridnairobi.unep.org
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Layer: Avian influenza outbreaks - Interactive Online
- Austin Peay State University: GIS Center
- Feature classes containing cases and deaths from avian flu in both birds and humans by country
- ArcIMS Server: http://gisweb.apsu.edu
Service: birdflu - Interactive Online
- Access Raw Data Tables
- WHO: Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A (H5N1)
- OIE: World Organization for Animal Health
- Provides tables (and a PDF graph) containing avian influenza in animals (type 5).
- WHO: Global Health Atlas
- Great resource for worldwide, country-level, disease data. Provides data tables and even an interactive mapping interface. The data tables are the most useful to me as there is even a download to Excel option.
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The UN's World Conservation Monitoring Center, (part of the Environment Programme) has some world bird data available in a WMS service. Or did at some point: I can't get at it right now, so I can't say much about what's there and if it's available for offline use in any way. All I remember is that there are many services available and it might be hard to choose which one. My bookmark came from MapDex, so maybe searching there will work.
CC, thank you for that tip!
Yes, I did find the server (I think) that you were talking about.
Server: http://bure.unep-wcmc.org
Service: AEWA
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They provide detailed flyway routes for specific avian species. Great stuff!
Hey, great stuff. Im working a a GIS project on the avian flu for school, and this data helped out a ton. Thanks!
Anonymous, I'm glad this was useful for you!
Hi mapz!
I'm a university student from Singapore and currently doing a research project on using spatial diffusion model with GIS to analyze the movement of Avian Influenza disease spreading.
I'm looking for Avian Flu disease data for GIS. However I can't get any from the internet out there. I have a few questions to ask. Do you think you could help me with this?
You can contact me at yanlongtay@gmail.com
Thank you so much!
Kind Regards,
Yan Long
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Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, also known as "bird flu", A(H5N1) or simply H5N1, is a subtype of the influenza A virus which can cause illness in humans and many other animal species. A bird-adapted strain of H5N1, called HPAI A(H5N1) for "highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of type A of subtype H5N1", is the causative agent of H5N1 flu, commonly known as "avian influenza" or "bird flu". It is enzootic in many bird populations, especially in Southeast Asia. One strain of HPAI A(H5N1) is spreading globally after first appearing in Asia. It is epizootic (an epidemic in nonhumans) and panzootic (affecting animals of many species, especially over a wide area), killing tens of millions of birds and spurring the culling of hundreds of millions of others to stem its spread. Most references to "bird flu" and H5N1 in the popular media refer to this strain.
According to the FAO Avian Influenza Disease Emergency Situation Update, H5N1 pathogenicity is continuing to gradually rise in endemic areas, but the avian influenza disease situation in farmed birds is being held in check by vaccination. Eleven outbreaks of H5N1 were reported worldwide in June 2008 in five countries (China, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam) compared to 65 outbreaks in June 2006 and 55 in June 2007. The "global HPAI situation can be said to have improved markedly in the first half of 2008 [but] cases of HPAI are still underestimated and underreported in many countries because of limitations in country disease surveillance systems". On October 10, 2011 the WHO announced a total of 566 confirmed human cases which resulted in the deaths of 332 people since 2003.
Hi Mapz,
This is Christine, and I am working on a project for my GIS class at Houston. I think your data in these links is gonna be very helpful, but I cannot get access to them. Could you help me with it? Thank you so much!
Christine
Hi mapz:
Thank you very much to make the migratory bird flyways digitalized and share it in your blog. However, (maybe it has been too many years) when I attempted to open the link of the resources (kml/geodatabase/shp), it turns to be "404 - File or directory not found.(The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.)".
Till today, this resource is not available online except your blog. I would appreciate it if you could send the files to me by e-mail: kikiyang03@gmail.com.
Thanks again!
Hi, I need only the Migratory birds flyway shapefile but provided links are not working. Can you please fix the links or again share it. It'll be a great help for me.
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