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Crowdfunding Our Wildlife Disease Alert System

We need your help to improve, build and update the Wildlife Morbidity and Mortality Event Alert System (WMMEAS). In case you are not aware, the WMMEAS is a monitoring platform we are developing to track wildlife diseases using data from wildlife rehabilitators and wildlife veterinarians.

By Rachel Avilla ·

Crowdfunding Our Wildlife Disease Alert System
Logos of the UC Davis Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, The Wild Neighbors Database Project and California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

We need your help to improve, build and update the Wildlife Morbidity and Mortality Event Alert System (WMMEAS). In case you are not aware, the WMMEAS is a monitoring platform we are developing to track wildlife diseases using data from wildlife rehabilitators and wildlife veterinarians. We've set a modest goal of $3,000. Funds raised through this campaign will be used to develop a more sophisticated anomaly detection algorithm that will allow for higher accuracy in detection and to provide open access to the system’s online dashboard where users can query and visualize trends in wildlife morbidity and mortality events and sign up to receive alerts to wildlife health anomalies.

Visit the campaign page here:https://crowdfund.ucdavis.edu/project/29935

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Check the WIRED magazine article featuring our system here: This AI Helps Detect Wildlife Health Issues in Real Time

Alert system dashboard charting songbirds admitted with ocular signs, which spiked in May and June 2021, above the matching patient records.

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