ResearchProgress of Forecasting and Early Warning of AvianInfluenza Based on GIS
Geographicinformation system(GIS)is a comprehensive tool for storing,analyzing,processing and presenting data relatedto geographic environment,which couldintegrate and analyze the data regarding influenza cases,climate,society andothers,and identify all risk factors foroccurrence and spreading of influenza by use of statistics or mathematicalmodels to forecast and visually warn any trends of influenza. In recent years,a large number of studies on risk factorsanalyzing and forecasting of avian influenza(AI)had been carried out by scholars inboth home and abroad by means of GIS,including,studies on the risk factors andforecasting of human infection with H7N9 influenza,H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza(HPAI)and wild AI,studies on the distributioncharacteristics of different genotypes of viruses,as well as theapplication researches on the supporting of veterinary decision-making. Thesestudies would provide some references for veterinary epidemiologists toeffectively control AI by GIS.