/diseases/outbreaks/news | gideononline

Returns curated disease outbreak news articles, ordered by outbreak date (newest first).

Query parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`count`	integer	No. Default = 20	Maximum number of articles when `days` is not used. Capped at 100 (larger values are treated as 100).
`days`	integer	No	If set, only articles added to the feed within the last `days` days are returned (maximum effective window 20 days). When `days` is set, `count` is not applied.

Response

JSON object with a data array. Typical fields per article include disease and country names and codes, location (state, city, admin areas), dates, title, source, URL, case counts, summary (abstract), and related labels.

Returns curated disease outbreak news articles, ordered by outbreak date (newest first). #### **Query parameters** | Name | Type | Required | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `count` | integer | No. Default = 20 | Maximum number of articles when `days` is **not** used. Capped at **100** (larger values are treated as 100). | | `days` | integer | No | If set, only articles added to the feed within the last `days` days are returned (maximum effective window **20** days). When `days` is set, `count` is **not** applied. | #### **Response** JSON object with a `data` array. Typical fields per article include disease and country names and codes, location (state, city, admin areas), dates, title, source, URL, case counts, summary (`abstract`), and related labels.

Authentication

Authorizationstring

API Key authentication via header

Query parameters

countintegerOptional

Maximum rows returned when days is omitted. Default is 20. Not applied when days is provided (all approved matches in the window are returned).

daysintegerOptional

Optional. Only include articles added to the feed within the last N days. Values above 20 are treated as 20; values below 1 are ignored (same as omitting days).

Response

datalist of objects

Returns curated disease outbreak news articles, ordered by outbreak date (newest first).

Query parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`count`	integer	No. Default = 20	Maximum number of articles when `days` is not used. Capped at 100 (larger values are treated as 100).
`days`	integer	No	If set, only articles added to the feed within the last `days` days are returned (maximum effective window 20 days). When `days` is set, `count` is not applied.

1	curl -G https://api.gideononline.com/diseases/outbreaks/news \
2	-H "Authorization: <apiKey>" \
3	-d count=20 \
4	-d days=7

1	{
2	"data": [
3	{
4	"url": "https://example.com/article",
5	"city": "Addis Ababa",
6	"cases": 10,
7	"title": "Example headline",
8	"country": "Ethiopia",
9	"disease": "Influenza",
10	"abstract": "Short summary text.",
11	"news_source": "Example News",
12	"country_code": "G158",
13	"disease_code": 11170,
14	"publication_date": "2025-01-16",
15	"outbreak_first_reported": "2025-01-15"
16	}
17	]
18	}