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New Ideas & Innovations: WildAlert Real-Time, AI-Driven Early Warning System for Wildlife Health & Ecological Threat Detection

New Ideas & Innovations: WildAlert Real-Time, AI-Driven Early Warning System for Wildlife Health & Ecological Threat Detection

Abstract: Emerging infections and environmental disruptions increasingly threaten wildlife and ecosystem health.Free-ranging wildlife often serve as early indicators of ecological instability, making timely detection ofmorbidity and mortality events critical for early warning. Yet, existing systems lack the analytical capacity forreal-time outbreak detection. We present WildAlert, an AI-driven early warning system […]

WildAlert: A Real-Time, AI-Driven Early Warning System for Wildlife Health and Ecological Threat Detection

WildAlert: A Real-Time, AI-Driven Early Warning System for Wildlife Health and Ecological Threat Detection

WildAlert- an AI-driven early warning system that integrates fine tuned BERT-based natural language processing models with unsupervised anomaly detection framework to
identify unusual wildlife health events using real-time pre-diagnostic clinical data from wildlife rehabilitation
organizations.

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Updates- May 2026

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Updates- May 2026

Current updates on the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in North America.

May 22, 2026 Current Disease Events, Resources
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Current Updates 2026

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Current Updates 2026

As of December 2021, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been detected in free-ranging cervids in 26 states.

March 2, 2026 Current Disease Events, Resources
2022 Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Birds and Poultry in the U.S.

2022 Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Birds and Poultry in the U.S.

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has recently been detected in both wild and domestic birds in multiple states across the U.S.

February 26, 2022 Current Disease Events, News
Listeria found in wild gray foxes in New Hampshire

Listeria found in wild gray foxes in New Hampshire

Listeria has been found in two New Hampshire wild gray foxes by investigators at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire

October 16, 2020 News
Ophidiomycosis, an emerging fungal disease of snakes: Targeted surveillance on military lands and detection in the western US and Puerto Rico

Ophidiomycosis, an emerging fungal disease of snakes: Targeted surveillance on military lands and detection in the western US and Puerto Rico

Ophidiomycosis (formerly referred to as Snake Fungal Disease, SFD), an emergent disease on the North American landscape poses a threat to snake population health and stability.

October 16, 2020 Research & Publications
Deer Mortalities due to Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease confirmed in South Dakota and New York

Deer Mortalities due to Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease confirmed in South Dakota and New York

With late summer being “EHD season,” two recent news reports were published regarding deer mortalities due to EHD in New York and South Dakota.

September 29, 2020 News
Chronic Wasting Disease Diagnostic Discrepancies: The Importance of Testing Both Medial Retropharyngeal Lymph Nodes

Chronic Wasting Disease Diagnostic Discrepancies: The Importance of Testing Both Medial Retropharyngeal Lymph Nodes

The study examined left and right medial retropharyngeal lymph nodes from 101 ELISA-positive deer harvested from 2015 to 2019.

September 29, 2020 Research & Publications
COVID-19 Resources for Wildlife Professionals

COVID-19 Resources for Wildlife Professionals

Useful documents and guidelines for those working with wildlife- both wild populations and animals in rehab.

September 9, 2020 Resources