How OutbreakThreat alerts work
OutbreakThreat does not guess outbreaks. When email is on, we notify you about a published, source-linked signal that matches the geography and disease rules you set. Sign in with a magic link. Free covers one watch and a weekly digest; paid plans add more watches, and Family/Pro can send near-real-time email.
- You pick a plan, save watch areas (one on Free), and choose a radius (5 - 250 miles, capped by plan).
- You choose which diseases to follow and the minimum credibility tier (Official vs Emerging, depending on plan).
- Family and Pro plans queue a near-real-time email when a matching official signal appears (the send worker runs about every 20 minutes). Free and Personal plans receive a weekly digest of matches instead. Each email points back to the agency page - we do not paste full case files into your inbox.
- If nothing matches, you get silence (or an empty week for digest plans). That is normal: it means we are not seeing a publisher-reported notice for that combination right now.
Technical detail: subscriber emails only send for signals that meet our internal bar (official tier plus https publisher links). Empty disease preferences mean all diseases in radius; saved preferences narrow the match. Sources & methodology