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Public Health News, Live and Structured
Real-time public health news, structured for developers. NewsMesh surfaces public health coverage from outlets across 35 countries and serves it as clean JSON, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body. Pull it with full-text search (GET /v1/search?q=) and layer category, country, or date filters on top, no scraping required.
New report shows low respiratory vaccine rate in Canada as kids head back to the classroom
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Childhood vaccination rates remain stable in Quebec despite the COVID-19 pandemic
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Childhood vaccination rates remain stable in Quebec despite the COVID-19 pandemic
MONTRÉAL - As students head back to school across Quebec, data from the province's public health institute indicate that vaccination rates have remained stable in recent years.
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Public Health News coverage
NewsMesh surfaces public health coverage from sources across 35 countries, normalised into one structured feed you can query by keyword, category, country, and date.
Pull Public Health News into your app
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?q=public+health). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?apiKey=nm_xxx&q=public+health&limit=20"Endpoints
GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.
Guides
Frequently asked questions about Public Health News
How do I pull public health news from the API?
Call GET /v1/search?q=public health with your apiKey to return recent public health stories as structured JSON. Add &category= or &country= to narrow the results.
What does NewsMesh tag on each public health story?
Every public health article carries its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can route and filter without your own NLP layer.
Can I combine public health with category or country filters?
Yes. Add &category=technology (or business, politics, and more) and &country=us (or any ISO country code) to the search query to focus the feed.
Is public health news available in real time?
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: public health stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
How do I access the public health news feed?
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Need more public health articles?
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.