Pandemic Alert Board Screensaver
The Pandemic Alert Board screensaver scrolls the World Health Organization's public news feed — including outbreak and public-health emergency updates — gathered by a background pipeline the same way this site's News Today saver works. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
How the Pandemic Alert Board screensaver works
A background pipeline reads the WHO's public news RSS feed, with no key required — the same approach the site's News Today saver uses.
Each alert scrolls through with its real title and the country or region involved.
A running count shows how many alerts have appeared since the pipeline last refreshed.
Readings refresh on the pipeline's schedule, not live tick by tick.
A worked example
You might see a real alert for a cholera cluster or an avian flu detection scroll past — genuine WHO public-health reporting, not a simulation.
Settings & tips
- Accent recolours the alert text.
- Run
automation/run.py pandemicalerton your pipeline machine to refresh the data. - This is public-health surveillance, not a personal risk assessment.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this only outbreak alerts?
- It's the WHO's general public news feed, which includes outbreak and health-emergency updates among broader WHO news.
- Why does it need a pipeline?
- Like the site's News Today saver, RSS feeds are gathered server-side rather than parsed in the browser — no key needed, just a scheduled fetch.
- How often are alerts published?
- Irregularly, as real outbreaks are confirmed and reported by the WHO.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.