Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 23rd - 29th November 2024
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 29-11-2024 03:01 PM GMT
23rd - 29th November 2024
Country Hazards
Bolivia
Costa Rica
Small plane carrying six people crashes near Costa Rica's capital | AP News
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic: Pluvial/Flash Flood - DREF Operation (MDRDO018) - Dominican Republic | ReliefWeb
Egypt
Sixteen missing after tourist boat sinks in Red Sea - BBC News
Estonia
Indonesia
Indonesia: Floods, landslides kill 31 in North Sumatra – DW – 11/29/2024
Lithuania
Lithuania plane crash: At least one dead and three injured near Vilnius - BBC News
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mozambique
New Zealand
Whooping cough epidemic declared across Aotearoa New Zealand | Ministry of Health NZ
Netherlands
Netherlands - Severe weather (KNMI, media)(ECHO Daily Flash of 29 November 2024)
The Occupied Palestinian Territories
Gaza: Heavy rains flood camps raising risk of disease for 235,000 children
South Africa
South Korea
Republic of Korea - Severe weather (KMA, media)(ECHO Daily Flash of 29 November 2024)
Biggest November snowstorm in half a century hits Seoul and grounds flights | AP News
Sri Lanka
Children among the dead and missing as heavy rains trigger floods in Sri Lanka | AP News
Tanzania
Rescue ends in Tanzania building collapse as death toll rises to 29 | AP News
Uganda
Uganda landslide sweeps away dozens of houses in Bulambuli after heavy rains - BBC News
Death toll rises to at least 15 after landslides bury 40 homes in eastern Uganda | AP News
UK
Storm Bert brings more travel disruption with more than 150 flood warnings in place - BBC News
Storm Bert leaves Britain on high alert after battering the country | AP News
USA
Listeria outbreak: Recall issued as US says infant died - BBC News
Investigation Update: Listeria Outbreak, Meat and Poultry Products, 2024 | Listeria Infection | CDC
Other items of interest
UN Secretary general's Campaign UNiTE to End Violence Against Women, 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Concept Note
- ‘No excuse’: A global call to end violence against women | UN News
- 16 Days of Activism: #NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence against Women
- Femicides in 2023: Global estimates of intimate partner/family member femicides | Publications | UN Women – Headquarters
- Violence against women WHO
- Internal Displacement in Africa - An overview of trends and developments (2009-2023)| IDMC - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
- Impacts of displacement: Displacement linked to sea level rise on Plantain Island, Sierra Leone | IDMC - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Talks begin in South Korea to clinch ‘essential’ deal on plastics pollution | UN News
Upholding human rights is key to ending AIDS by 2030 | UN News
Women scientists around the world: Strategies for gender equality: International Science Council
E-waste: Burning old TVs - the toxic trade in electrical waste - BBC News
Children and amputees bear brunt of Myanmar’s deadly landmine epidemic | UN News
California wildfire explodes, burning across 25 miles in day
A tornado tore across the Nullarbor desert two years ago but we didn't notice until now - ABC News
Recent papers of note
- European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, One Health Governance in the European Union, Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/8697309
- Kjemtrup AM, Hacker JK, Monroe M, et al. Severe and Fatal Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever After Exposure in Tecate, Mexico — California, July 2023–January 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73:1069–1075. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7347a1