WHO Medical News & Outbreak Alerts Scraper
Pricing
$6.00 / 1,000 results
WHO Medical News & Outbreak Alerts Scraper
Fetch official WHO news, disease outbreak alerts and health features from WHO RSS feeds. Filter by keyword. No API key needed.
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$6.00 / 1,000 results
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Fetch official health news, disease outbreak alerts and in-depth features directly from the World Health Organization via their public RSS feeds. Filter by keyword. No API key required.
Features
- Three WHO feeds: General News, Disease Outbreak Alerts, Health Features
- Optional keyword filter on title and description
- Parses RSS/XML cleanly with CDATA support
- Deduplicates items across feeds
- Outbreak alerts are a critical source for infectious disease monitoring
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
feeds | array | ["news", "outbreaks"] | Which feeds: news, outbreaks, features | |
keyword | string | — | Filter items by keyword in title/description | |
maxResults | integer | 100 | Max items (1–500) |
Output
{"title": "Australia becomes the 30th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem","description": "The World Health Organization has validated Australia for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem, marking a significant milestone...","pubDate": "Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:10:07 Z","category": null,"source": "news","url": "https://www.who.int/news/item/29-04-2026-australia-becomes..."}
Use Cases
1. Infectious Disease Monitoring Dashboard
A hospital infection control team runs this actor daily with the outbreaks feed and no keyword filter — ingesting WHO outbreak alerts into their internal dashboard to track emerging infectious disease threats in real time.
2. Medical Newsletter Automation
A medical association runs this actor weekly with keyword antimicrobial resistance — extracting relevant WHO announcements to include in their member newsletter, with source attribution to WHO.
3. Global Health Research Pipeline
A public health researcher monitors WHO news for specific disease areas (e.g., mpox or cholera) across all three feeds — building a longitudinal dataset of WHO announcements for policy analysis.
Data Sources
- news: WHO News Releases
- outbreaks: WHO Disease Outbreak News
- features: WHO Features
Pricing
All three feeds combined → ~50–75 items. Pay-per-result. ≈ $0.25–$0.50.