# Get alerts on new WHO disease outbreaks

**Use case:** 

By the time a disease outbreak reaches mainstream news, your supply chain, travel and risk teams have already lost a week. This example watches WHO's official Disease Outbreak News feed and returns each new international alert - Ebola, cholera, mpox, avian flu - as soon as it publishes. Add disease, country or region filters to narrow it.

## Input

```json
{
  "keywords": [],
  "request_timeout_secs": 20
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "disease": {
    "label": "Disease"
  },
  "location": {
    "label": "Location"
  },
  "total_cases": {
    "label": "Total cases"
  },
  "total_deaths": {
    "label": "Total deaths"
  },
  "new_cases_since_last_report": {
    "label": "New cases"
  },
  "new_deaths_since_last_report": {
    "label": "New deaths"
  },
  "matched_keyword": {
    "label": "Matched keyword"
  },
  "published": {
    "label": "Published"
  },
  "summary": {
    "label": "Summary"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "WHO link"
  },
  "checked_at": {
    "label": "Checked at"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Outbreak Watch — WHO Disease Outbreak Alerts](https://apify.com/0xgollum/outbreak-watch.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/0xgollum/outbreak-watch.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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