A real-time atlas of outbreaks.
OutbreakIndex aggregates outbreak data from official health agencies, news media, and open signals into a single auditable map. Every number traces back to its source.
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- official · media · signal
- 9+
- WHO · CDC · ECDC · RKI
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- continuous ingest
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- live
One platform, every outbreak.
Live case counts across every tracker — sourced from official health agencies, news media, and open signals. Every number traces back to its source.
From source to map, in plain sight.
Every observation keeps a trail back to the source it came from. The pipeline is three steps, none of them hidden.
- 01 / Step
Discover
Scheduled crawlers sweep official health agencies, news media, and open signals. Discovery is broad and cheap — every candidate document is logged so nothing slips between runs.
SourcesWHO · CDC · ECDC · RKI · PAHO · ProMED · GDELT - 02 / Step
Index
Reports from every source are reconciled into a single observation per event, deduplicated across outlets, and tagged by provenance tier — so trust is data, not code.
Tiersofficial · media · signal - 03 / Step
Visualize
Deduped events feed a suite of views — maps, timelines, breakdowns, and embeds — so the same dataset can answer different questions. Citations travel with every number.
Viewsmap · timeline · embed · ledger
Built to be questioned.
Public-health dashboards live or die on trust. These four principles decide what gets built and what gets cut.
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Method, on the record
Every transformation between source document and chart is documented. The dashboard shows the chain of custody behind every number, so the method can be questioned even when the code isn't on display.
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Citable by default
Every observation carries a citation back to the original document. Disagreements show up as discrepancies, not silent overwrites.
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Embed anywhere
Counter and map widgets ship with permissive framing and CDN caching. Drop them into newsrooms, dashboards, or research notes.
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Multilingual
Source ingestion is language-agnostic via GDELT and translation. The dashboard ships with locale-aware routes from day one.
First to know when a new tracker ships.
When a new pathogen tracker goes live — or when something on the platform changes that matters — we'll send one short note.
See the data behind the next outbreak.
The Hantavirus and Ebola trackers are live now. New pathogens join the index as their data path stabilizes.