WHO Medical News & Outbreak Alerts — Daily Feed

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.

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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.

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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.

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Input

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

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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"
}

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Pricing

Event	Price	When it fires
Per result	$0.006	Per scraped record pushed to the dataset

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.

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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.

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Sister Actors — complementary coverage from azureblue

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

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Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md in this Actor.