communicable-disease-bulletins

name	communicable-disease-bulletins
description	Retrieve Estonia's monthly communicable-disease surveillance bulletins and their disease, outbreak, age, and regional indicators from Health Board PDFs.

Communicable Disease Bulletins

Access

• Index: https://www.terviseamet.ee/en/communicable-diseases/statistics/communicable-disease-bulletins
• Public server-rendered HTML linking monthly PDF bulletins; no login or JavaScript is required.

Retrieve

1. Fetch the index and extract links under the required year.
2. Resolve relative /sites/default/files/documents/...pdf paths against https://www.terviseamet.ee.
3. Download the PDFs whose visible labels match the requested months. Current English filenames use EEpiR <month> <year>.pdf.
4. Extract tables with a PDF-aware tool; use OCR only for pages that have no text layer.

The page also links the TAI PxWeb morbidity database for longer time series. Use health-statistics when that structured database answers the question without bulletin-specific commentary.

Return

• Preserve bulletin month, publication URL, disease name, geography, age group, count/rate, unit, footnotes, and retrieval time.
• Keep provisional values and case-definition notes attached to their table.
• Cite the exact PDF page for extracted values.

Limits

• The index is a publication archive, not an API; file paths change each month.
• Bulletin tables and narrative may mix Estonian and English disease labels.
• Do not combine counts across tables until their periods, geographies, and definitions match.

Verify

• Require HTTP 200 text/html with multiple year sections and multiple .pdf bulletin links.
• Require each selected file to return a PDF (%PDF- signature). Reject the index page itself as disease data.