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WHO Medical News & Outbreak Alerts Scraper

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$6.00 / 1,000 results

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WHO Medical News & Outbreak Alerts Scraper

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

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
feedsarray["news", "outbreaks"]Which feeds: news, outbreaks, features
keywordstringFilter items by keyword in title/description
maxResultsinteger100Max 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

Pricing

All three feeds combined → ~50–75 items. Pay-per-result. ≈ $0.25–$0.50.