CDC travel health notices (TRIPWIRE)

CEV-OS / Data API / CDC travel health notices (TRIPWIRE)

CEV-OS Data API · last updated 2026-11-04. Status: live. Version 1.

Use this when you need current CDC travel health notices (levels 1-4) for a country or the full list.

What it is

CDC Travelers' Health notices (levels 1-4) with the country list parsed from each notice. Country-level only. US Government work, public domain. No CDC endorsement implied. WHO Disease Outbreak News is not used (non-commercial licence).

Endpoints

REST: GET /v1/outbreaks on https://api.cev-os.com
Legacy host (same service): GET /v1/outbreaks on https://cev-os.com
MCP tool: get_outbreaks on https://mcp.cev-os.com/mcp

Parameters

Query parameters for `GET /v1/outbreaks`
Name	Type	Description	Constraints
`country`	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country filter.	example CD; pattern ^[A-Za-z]{2}$
`min_level`	integer	Minimum notice level 1-4 (default 1).	example 2; min 1; max 4

Example request

No account and no key. Query values below are the examples or defaults from the registry. An optional free key (header x-api-key) raises the limits; create one at https://cev-os.com/#api_keys after signing in with a verified email (Google sign-in is already verified).

curl -s "https://api.cev-os.com/v1/outbreaks?country=CD&min_level=2"

Example response

Every /v1 response is a JSON envelope (schema_version, product, timestamps, license, attribution, data). The registry example is the data member:

{
  "count": 1,
  "notices": [
    {
      "title": "Level 2 - Mpox in Central Africa",
      "disease": "Mpox in Central Africa",
      "level": 2,
      "countries": [
        "CD",
        "BI"
      ],
      "date": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "url": "https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices"
    }
  ]
}

Update frequency

TRIPWIRE refreshes CDC notices every 3 h; Data API caches 30 min.

Public cache: 1800 seconds (Cache-Control: public, max-age=1800).

Sources, license and usage

License status: cleared. CDC Travelers' Health is US Government work (public domain). No CDC endorsement implied.

Underlying sources
Source	License	commercialOk	Terms
CDC Travelers' Health, Travel Health Notices	US Government work (public domain). No CDC endorsement implied.	true	—

Attribution (show this wherever you display the data):

CDC Travelers' Health, Travel Health Notices (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices). No CDC endorsement implied.

Privacy class: public-derived. Access: public. Price: free (price is null; pay-per-call is not active).

Disclaimer

Not an official CDC product. No CDC endorsement. Not for clinical or life-safety decisions.

Data API hub (all products, limits, license notes)
MCP Registry listing com.cev-os/data
OpenAPI 3.1
Machine product list: /v1/products
CEV-OS TRIPWIRE incidents (explainer)

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