WHO Medical News & Outbreak Alerts — Daily Feed

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Structured feed of WHO news, disease-outbreak alerts (DON), and health features. Built for global-health teams, journalists, infectious-disease researchers, and pharma intelligence that need WHO content without parsing 3 different HTML pages.

What this Actor does

Data source: WHO Newsroom + WHO Disease Outbreak News. Public, no key required.

Output is one JSON record per result, conforming to the azureblue/medical-core envelope so you can join across our other actors on sourceUrl and dataHash.

Use Cases

1. Real-time outbreak monitoring

A travel-health insurer monitors WHO Disease Outbreak News and feeds new entries into their underwriting model — adjusts country-risk premiums hours after a WHO declaration, not weeks.

2. Infectious-disease research dashboard

A university public-health team subscribes to WHO outbreaks + features. New entries flow into a Tableau dashboard tracking emerging-pathogen-of-concern trends across regions.

3. Pharma global health affairs

A global pharma affairs team gets a daily digest of WHO releases relevant to their portfolio (TB, malaria, vaccines). Feeds into their internal "what does WHO think today" weekly briefing.

Input

{
"feeds":[
"news",
"outbreaks"
],
"keyword":"cholera",
"maxResults":25
}

Output (sample item)

{
"title":"Cholera \u2014 Sudan",
"description":"The Ministry of Health Sudan reported an increase in cholera cases in Kassala State...",
"pubDate":"Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:30:00 +0000",
"category":"Disease Outbreak News",
"source":"outbreaks",
"url":"https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2025-DON123"
}

Pricing

Trial mode: pass mode: "trial" to get 5 results free with no charges. Use it to evaluate output shape before subscribing.

Pricing on this Actor will rise on 2026-06-17 in line with our monetization tier upgrade. Subscribers active before then keep the current price.

Compliance

• Public-data only — every endpoint is the source's official public interface. No login walls, no PHI, no paywalled content.
• GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) / equivalent — buyer is responsible for downstream use of the extracted data.
• Source attribution — every dataset item includes sourceUrl linking back to the canonical source.

Sister Actors — complementary coverage from azureblue

• medical-conference-scraper
• medical-device-recall-scraper
• fda-drug-approval-watch
• ema-drug-approval-watch

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md in this Actor.