diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index b62dabd..02c09ed 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 ^\.travis\.yml$
-^README\.*Rmd$
-^README\.*html$
-^NOTES\.*Rmd$
-^NOTES\.*html$
+^README.*$
+^NOTES.*$
 ^\.codecov\.yml$
 ^README_files$
 ^doc$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f08e2b6..d0f727c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Package: cdcfluview
 Type: Package
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Title: Retrieve 'U.S'. Flu Season Data from the 'CDC' 'FluView' Portal
-Version: 0.7.0
-Date: 2017-11-04
+Version: 0.8.0
+Date: 2018-09-16
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Bob", "Rudis", email = "bob@rud.is", role = c("aut", "cre"), 
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5670-2640")),
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ Imports:
     readr,
     MMWRweek,
     units (>= 0.4-6)
-RoxygenNote: 6.0.1
+RoxygenNote: 6.0.1.9000
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index a001f7b..1754940 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ export(cdc_basemap)
 export(geographic_spread)
 export(get_flu_data)
 export(get_hosp_data)
-export(get_mortality_surveillance_data)
 export(get_state_data)
 export(get_weekly_flu_report)
 export(hospitalizations)
diff --git a/R/get-mortality-surveillance-data.r b/R/get-mortality-surveillance-data.r
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c0d84b..0000000
--- a/R/get-mortality-surveillance-data.r
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-#' Mortality Surveillance Data from the National Center for Health Statistics (deprecated)
-#'
-#' The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) collects and disseminates the Nation's
-#' official vital statistics. These statistics are based on data provided to NCHS through
-#' contracts with the vital registration systems operated in the various jurisdictions
-#' legally responsible for the registration of deaths (i.e., death certificates) and other
-#' vital events. These data have previously only been released as annual final data files
-#' 12 months or more after the end of the data year. Recent NCHS efforts to improve the
-#' timeliness of jurisdiction reporting and modernize the national vital statistics
-#' infrastructure have created a system capable of supporting near real-time surveillance.
-#' Capitalizing on these new capabilities, NCHS and CDC’s Influenza Division have
-#' partnered to pilot the use of NCHS mortality surveillance data for Pneumonia and
-#' Influenza (P&I) mortality surveillance.
-#'
-#' NCHS mortality surveillance data are presented by the week the death occurred.
-#' Nationally P&I percentages are released two weeks after the week of death to allow for
-#' collection of enough data to produce a stable P&I percentage at the national level.
-#' Collection of complete data is not expected, and reliable P&I ratios are not expected
-#' at the region and state level within this two week period. State and Region level
-#' counts will be released only after 20% of the expected number of deaths are reported
-#' through the system.
-#'
-#' @references \url{https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/nchs.htm}
-#' @return a list of \code{tbl_df}s
-#' @export
-#' @examples \dontrun{
-#' get_mortality_surveillance_data()
-#' }
-get_mortality_surveillance_data <- function() {
-
-  message(
-    paste0(
-      c("This function has been deprecated and will be removed in future releases.",
-        "Use pi_mortality() instead."),
-      collapse="\n"
-    )
-  )
-
-  # scrape (ugh) web page to get data file links for state mortality data
-
-  pg <- xml2::read_html("https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/nchs.htm")
-
-  PREFIX <- "https://www.cdc.gov"
-
-  xml2::xml_find_all(pg, ".//select[@id='State']/option[contains(@value, 'csv') and
-                                                        contains(@value, 'State_')]") %>%
-    xml2::xml_attr("value") %>%
-    sprintf("%s%s", PREFIX, .) -> targets
-
-  pb <- dplyr::progress_estimated(length(targets))
-  purrr::map_df(targets, function(x) {
-    pb$tick()$print()
-    suppressMessages(readr::read_csv(URLencode(x), col_types="ciidii"))
-  }) -> influenza_mortality_by_state
-
-  # scrape (ugh) web page to get data file links for regional mortality data
-
-  xml2::xml_find_all(pg, ".//select[@id='Regional Data']/
-                             option[contains(@value, 'csv') and
-                                    not(contains(@value, 'Week_'))]") %>%
-    xml2::xml_attr("value") %>%
-    sprintf("%s%s", PREFIX, .) -> targets
-
-  pb <- dplyr::progress_estimated(length(targets))
-  purrr::map_df(targets, function(x) {
-    pb$tick()$print()
-    suppressMessages(read_csv(URLencode(x), col_types="ciidii"))
-  }) -> influenza_mortality_by_region
-
-  # scrape (ugh) web page to get data file links for weekly mortality data
-
-  xml2::xml_find_all(pg, ".//select[@id='Regional Data']/
-                             option[contains(@value, 'csv') and
-                                    contains(@value, 'Week_')]") %>%
-    xml2::xml_attr("value") %>%
-    sprintf("%s%s", PREFIX, .) -> targets
-
-  pb <- dplyr::progress_estimated(length(targets))
-  purrr::map_df(targets, function(x) {
-    pb$tick()$print()
-    suppressMessages(read_csv(URLencode(x), col_types="ciidii"))
-  }) -> influenza_mortality_by_week
-
-  # if return it all
-
-  list(
-    by_state = influenza_mortality_by_state,
-    by_region = influenza_mortality_by_region,
-    by_week = influenza_mortality_by_week
-  ) -> out
-
-  class(out) <- c("cfv_mortality", class(out))
-
-  out
-
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 9c3f83a..baded91 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 ## Test environments
 
-* local OS X install, R 3.4.2
-* local Ubuntu 16.04 R 3.4.1
+* local OS X install, R 3.5.1
+* local Ubuntu 16.04 R 3.5.1
 * ubuntu 14.04 (on travis-ci), R old/current/devel
 * win-builder (devel and release)
-* rhub Windows (devel and release)
 
 ## R CMD check results
 
@@ -18,14 +17,9 @@ None
 
 ---
 
-The CDC changed most of their API endpoints to support a new HTML interface and 
-re-jiggered the back-end API. Craig McGowan updated the old cdcfluview API function
-to account for the changes. However, the new API endpoints provided additional
-data features and it seemed to make sense to revamp the package to fit more in line
-with the way the APIs were structured. Legacy cdcfluview functions have been deprecated
-and will display deprecation messages when run. The new cdcfluview package API
-changes a few things about how you work with the data but the README and examples
-show how to work with it. 
+The CDC changed their endpoints again and remove support for one of them. The
+function had been deprecated in the previous version submitted to CRAN and
+had been removed in this version due to the removal from the CDC.
 
 Only some examples run on CRAN due to their time consuming nature and the need
 to make external calls. Weekly tests are performed on Travis-CI 
diff --git a/man/get_mortality_surveillance_data.Rd b/man/get_mortality_surveillance_data.Rd
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f7aca7..0000000
--- a/man/get_mortality_surveillance_data.Rd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
-% Please edit documentation in R/get-mortality-surveillance-data.r
-\name{get_mortality_surveillance_data}
-\alias{get_mortality_surveillance_data}
-\title{Mortality Surveillance Data from the National Center for Health Statistics (deprecated)}
-\usage{
-get_mortality_surveillance_data()
-}
-\value{
-a list of \code{tbl_df}s
-}
-\description{
-The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) collects and disseminates the Nation's
-official vital statistics. These statistics are based on data provided to NCHS through
-contracts with the vital registration systems operated in the various jurisdictions
-legally responsible for the registration of deaths (i.e., death certificates) and other
-vital events. These data have previously only been released as annual final data files
-12 months or more after the end of the data year. Recent NCHS efforts to improve the
-timeliness of jurisdiction reporting and modernize the national vital statistics
-infrastructure have created a system capable of supporting near real-time surveillance.
-Capitalizing on these new capabilities, NCHS and CDC’s Influenza Division have
-partnered to pilot the use of NCHS mortality surveillance data for Pneumonia and
-Influenza (P&I) mortality surveillance.
-}
-\details{
-NCHS mortality surveillance data are presented by the week the death occurred.
-Nationally P&I percentages are released two weeks after the week of death to allow for
-collection of enough data to produce a stable P&I percentage at the national level.
-Collection of complete data is not expected, and reliable P&I ratios are not expected
-at the region and state level within this two week period. State and Region level
-counts will be released only after 20% of the expected number of deaths are reported
-through the system.
-}
-\examples{
-\dontrun{
-get_mortality_surveillance_data()
-}
-}
-\references{
-\url{https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/nchs.htm}
-}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-cdcfluview.R b/tests/testthat/test-cdcfluview.R
index ff4c3a4..f44ebb0 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-cdcfluview.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-cdcfluview.R
@@ -75,11 +75,3 @@ test_that("Old API works", {
   invisible(get_weekly_flu_report())
 
 })
-
-test_that("these are potentially time-consuming calls", {
-
-  skip_on_cran()
-
-  invisible(get_mortality_surveillance_data())
-
-})
\ No newline at end of file