disease.influenza.cdc
Get US influenza surveillance data from CDC FluView. Returns weekly ILI (influenza-like illness) activity levels by age group, positive test rates by influenza type (A/B), and national summary. Updated weekly.
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What disease.influenza.cdc does on Apibase
AI agents call disease.influenza.cdc to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
weeks | integer | — | Number of most recent weeks to return (default all, up to 104). CDC ILI data is published weekly. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why disease.influenza.cdc is rated Low
Retrieves publicly available epidemiological surveillance data with no side effects or modifications.
From the tool's definition Get US influenza surveillance data from CDC FluView. Returns weekly ILI activity levels, positive test rates, national summary.
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The rule that runs disease.influenza.cdc safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For disease.influenza.cdc, this is the rule to start with:
disease.influenza.cdc is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every disease.influenza.cdc call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about disease.influenza.cdc
Get US influenza surveillance data from CDC FluView. Returns weekly ILI (influenza-like illness) activity levels by age group, positive test rates by influenza type (A/B), and national summary. Updated weekly. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
disease.influenza.cdc accepts 1 parameter: weeks. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for disease.influenza.cdc: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
disease.influenza.cdc is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the disease.influenza.cdc rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for disease.influenza.cdc. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
disease.influenza.cdc is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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