African Swine Fever Worldwide Epidemiology Data - OIE Webscrape example - Geocoded using Google API and Manual

Example African Swine Fever dataset generated by programs described in following publication Title: Web-scraping programmatic techniques in aggregating difficult to access OIE WAHIS animal disease outbreak information; using African Swine Fever in Europe as an example. Short running title: Methods for web-scraping OIE WAHIS data. Abstract: This study describes and makes available new methods for acquiring difficult to access, publicly available, disease surveillance data. It uses World Organisation for Animal Heath (OIE) data on African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks in Belarus and its neighbouring European countries to showcase the importance of adequate disease surveillance data to inform decision-making. The data acquired from these methods allow for large-scale, geospatial outbreak mapping and summary statistics of any terrestrial disease listed on the OIE World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS) database. These techniques will make important epidemiological data more accessible to the scientific community and aid in gaining further insight into the occurrence and spread of OIE listed diseases in a timely manner, fulfilling an important function of disease surveillance.