🦠 WHO Disease Outbreak News Scraper

🚀 Export export who disease outbreak news reports with full content and metadata in seconds. Export World Health Organization Disease Outbreak News reports: title, publication date, summary, full overview, assessment, advice, URL, DON ID and source. Filter by year. CSV, Excel, JSON, XML for epidemiology research, public health monitoring and academic studies. No account required for the source.

The WHO Disease Outbreak News Scraper extracts structured records from World Health Organization. Every record captures the canonical fields you would expect from the upstream source - ready for analytics, dashboards, BI tooling, or further enrichment.

The dataset spans worldwide (all who-monitored outbreaks) and exposes the same data the official source publishes - normalised, paginated, and exportable.

Who uses this data?

Audience	Use Case
Epidemiologists	Build longitudinal datasets for analysis
Compliance teams	Monitor regulated entities and filings
Journalists	Investigate public records at scale
Data analysts	Power BI dashboards and reports
Academic researchers	Run quantitative studies on public data
Product teams	Embed live who disease outbreak news records into apps

📋 What the WHO Disease Outbreak News Scraper does

• Queries World Health Organization for the latest records
• Supports targeted filtering via the input parameters (see below)
• Returns structured records with 17 fields, no scraping artifacts
• Handles pagination automatically up to your maxItems limit
• Cleans HTML entities and normalises dates and identifiers
• Delivers results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML via Apify dataset export

💡 Why it matters: Public-data sources rarely offer bulk export. This Actor turns the live source into a queryable dataset - useful for any team that needs who disease outbreak news data at scale.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: advice, assessment, dateCreated, donId, epidemiology, furtherInformation, id, lastModified, publicationDate, response, scrapedAt, summary, title, url, urlName. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are limited to 10 items per run. Upgrade to a paid plan to unlock up to 1,000,000 items.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account - includes $5 free credit
2. Open the WHO Disease Outbreak News Scraper actor page
3. Configure your input - set filters or leave defaults
4. Set maxItems (10 for a quick preview, higher for bulk extraction)
5. Click Run and wait for the dataset to populate
6. Download your results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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Disclaimer: This Actor accesses publicly available data from World Health Organization in compliance with the source's terms of service. Data is provided as-is for informational purposes. Verify all records against the official source before relying on them for legal or business decisions.

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