Data sources

Each source below is polled on its own adaptive schedule. When a feed has new content, the dashboard updates within minutes. When a feed falters, you'll see "stale" or "error" status here — the rest of the site continues working on the remaining feeds.

• WHO Disease Outbreak News October 8, 2026 ok
• CDC NNDSS October 7, 2026 ok
• Press coverage (BBC, NPR, CBC, ABC, CBS) 2 hours ago ok
• PHAC Rapid Risk Assessments (Canada) October 6, 2026 ok
• ReliefWeb (OCHA) 18 hours ago ok
• WHO Bluesky (@who.int) 3 hours ago ok

Snapshot generated 2 hours ago.

What each source provides

• WHO Disease Outbreak News — the World Health Organization's formal outbreak bulletins. Authoritative; typically published every 3–7 days during an active event. The dashboard's case-count headline figures come from here.
• WHO Bluesky (@who.int) — WHO's social channel. Carries shorter case-count updates between formal DON publications. Same authority as the DON, fresher cadence.
• U.S. CDC National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS): the weekly national tables of reportable diseases. Supplies the year-to-date U.S. hantavirus case count behind the regional view.
• Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) — Canada's Rapid Risk Assessments. Particularly relevant for outbreaks that touch Canadian travelers or cargo, such as the MV Hondius cruise-ship cluster confirmed via PHAC.
• Press coverage — outbreak-relevant reporting from BBC News, NPR, CBC News, ABC News, and CBS News, filtered to articles that explicitly cover a pathogen we track. Useful for context the official feeds don't carry yet (state-level confirmations, voyage updates, on-the-ground reporting).
• ReliefWeb (OCHA) — the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs's situation-report service. Republishes daily on-the-ground sitreps during fast-moving events, closing the gap between WHO's roughly weekly formal bulletins. Surfaces here as press-style coverage; WHO Disease Outbreak News stays the authoritative source for headline case counts.

Every link on this site ultimately points back to one of the sources above. We aggregate; the originating authority is the record of truth.