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Data sources

Public Health Trace pulls from the sources listed below. Each card shows what the source covers, when it was last successfully imported, and a link to the agency's own site. Sources still being connected are labeled honestly rather than shown as if they were already flowing data -- see our methodology page for how imports and staleness are tracked.

CDC NNDSS Weekly Data

Live

CDC National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) weekly case counts by disease and state.

Coverage
Nationwide, weekly, by disease and state
Data last retrieved by Public Health Trace

CDC NORS (National Outbreak Reporting System)

Live

CDC National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) -- foodborne, waterborne, and enteric outbreak investigations.

Coverage
Nationwide outbreak investigations
Data last retrieved by Public Health Trace

CDC Travel Health Notices

Live

CDC Travel Health Notices -- official travel health guidance and alert levels by destination.

Coverage
International travel health notices
Data last retrieved by Public Health Trace

EPA AirNow Air Quality

Live

EPA AirNow -- official current air quality observations, forecasts, and Action Day advisories by reporting area, including EPA's own Air Quality Index (AQI) and pollutant-level detail.

Coverage
Nationwide current and forecast air quality by reporting area
Data last retrieved by Public Health Trace

FDA Food Enforcement (Recalls)

Live

openFDA's Food Enforcement dataset -- official FDA food recall records.

Coverage
Nationwide food recalls
Data last retrieved by Public Health Trace

FDA Food Safety Recalls (RSS)

Live

FDA's public food-safety-recalls RSS feed, a lighter complementary path alongside the enforcement dataset above.

Coverage
Nationwide food recalls
Data last retrieved by Public Health Trace

USDA FSIS Recalls (Meat/Poultry/Egg)

Live (alternate source)

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) meat, poultry, and egg product recalls, retrieved through a CDC-hosted combined food-safety feed after USDA's own API began blocking cloud-origin traffic.

Coverage
Nationwide meat, poultry, and egg product recalls
Data last retrieved by Public Health Trace

WHO Disease Outbreaks

Live

World Health Organization Disease Outbreak News -- published international outbreak bulletins, distinct from a U.S. investigation feed.

Coverage
International outbreak notices
Data last retrieved by Public Health Trace

FDA Drug Enforcement (Recalls)

Planned

openFDA's Drug Enforcement dataset -- official FDA drug recall records. This is the structured, authoritative source Public Health Trace uses for drug recalls; a newly announced recall may appear on FDA.gov's own recall-announcement page (see "FDA Drug Recall Announcements" below) days before it appears here.

Coverage
Nationwide drug recalls

FDA Drug Recall Announcements

Planned

FDA's own recall-announcement page, LLM-extracted -- an early-warning companion to the openFDA Drug Enforcement dataset above, which remains the sole authoritative source. A recall can appear here days before the matching openFDA enforcement record exists; these are shown as pending announcements until confirmed matched, never as official enforcement records.

Coverage
Nationwide drug recall announcements, pending confirmation

FDA Food Recall Announcements

Planned

FDA Food Recall Announcements

Coverage
Coverage details not yet published.

FDA Outbreak Investigations

Unavailable as machine-readable data

FDA outbreak investigation narrative pages. FDA currently publishes these only as prose web pages, with no API, RSS, CSV, or XML feed -- there is nothing machine-readable to connect to today.

Coverage
Nationwide outbreak investigation narratives

Georgia Department of Public Health

Planned

Georgia Department of Public Health surveillance data. No public machine-readable feed has been found for this source yet.

Coverage
Georgia state surveillance data