Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 30th November - 6th December 2024
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 06-12-2024 04:38 PM GMT
30th November - 6th December 2024
Regional Hazards
India and Sri Lanka
Cyclone Fengal death toll rises to 20 in Sri Lanka, India
India: Several dead as cyclone Fengal brings heavy rainfall – DW – 12/03/2024
Region of Americas
Oropouche virus disease - Region of the Americas
Thailand and Malaysia
Malaysia, Thailand brace for more rains after floods kill more than 30 | Climate News | Al Jazeera
Severe floods affect millions, claim over 30 lives in Thailand and Malaysia - The Watchers
Country Hazards
Afghanistan
Brazil
Chile
Chile - Wildfire (JRC GWIS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 04 December 2024) - Chile | ReliefWeb
3 injured as wildfire rages through Chile’s Chacabuco Province - The Watchers
China
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Unknown flu-like disease claims 143 lives in DR Congo - The Watchers
Lab results expected soon in DR Congo's mystery outbreak | CIDRAP
France
Greece
Greek islands Rhodes and Lemnos declare state of emergency after deadly storm wreaks havoc | AP News
Guinea
Guinea football stadium crush: Rights groups say 135 killed in Nzérékoré - BBC News
Haiti
Severe flooding leaves at least 3 dead, 15 injured in Grand’Anse, Haiti - The Watchers
India
At least 30 dead after Cyclone Fengal makes landfall over Puducherry, India - The Watchers
Heavy rains cause deadly landslide and floods in Tamil Nadu, southern India | Floods | Al Jazeera
Indonesia
Iran
29 injured as 5.6-magnitude quake shakes SW Iran -Xinhua
Japan
Kenya
Kenya - Floods (Kenya Met, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 05 December 2024) - Kenya | ReliefWeb
Malawi
11 dead, thousand displaced as severe storms hit Malawi - The Watchers
Nigeria
Nigeria Kogi state boat accident: More than 50 bodies recovered and many still missing - BBC News
Peru
Philippines
Philippines: Three dead and dozens sick after eating sea turtle stew - BBC News
Sri Lanka
Syria
Thailand
Severe floods hit southern Thailand, affecting over 240 000 households - The Watchers
USA
Search under way for woman believed trapped in sinkhole - BBC News
Midwest | U.S. Drought Monitor
- Drought Expands Across the U.S.
- S. Drought: Weekly Report for December 3, 2024 | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Other items of interest
The ‘slow onset, silent killer’: Droughts explained | UN News
- World Drought Atlas | UNCCD
- The International Drought Resilience Observatory will launch at UNCCD COP16 | UNCCD
- International Drought Resilience Alliance | Homepage | IDR Alliance
- Private sector urged to act as world faces $23 trillion loss from land degradation | UN News
Global status of multi-hazard early warning systems 2024 | UNDRR
- Second advisory panel annual summary report for the UN Secretary-General’s early warnings for all initiative | UNDRR
- Accelerating comprehensive risk management in agrifood systems - Issue brief | UNDRR
- UN Climate Change’s Technology Executive Committee and Group on Earth Observations Launch Policy Brief to Bolster Climate Resilience with Early Warning Technologies | UNFCCC
- The Future of Forecasts: Impact-based Forecasting for Early Action IFRC UK Met Office
- COP29: EWEA actors are feeling the heat – and not just figuratively! | REAP
- Better Safe Than Sorry: Four fundamentals for scaling up anticipatory action. - Oxfam Policy & Practice
Rules of Procedure for the Santiago Network’s Advisory Board
- Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts and joint annual report of its Executive Committee and the Santiago network for averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change
- Santiago Network_ call for proposals
UN health agency approves ‘groundbreaking’ TB test | UN News
Millions of women and girls forced to flee face high risk of gender-based violence: UNHCR | UN News
Security Council: Put young women at the heart of peace and security efforts | UN News
Pacific surges forward on climate and disaster resilience | UNDRR
Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Splash Pads — United States, 1997–2022 CDC
California reports H5N1 in more retail raw milk as virus infects 2 more dairy workers | CIDRAP
Recent UKHSA Reports
- Lead Exposure in Children Surveillance System (LEICSS) annual report, 2023 - GOV.UK
- New data show a rise in mosquito-borne infections - GOV.UK
- Tuberculosis in England, 2024 report - GOV.UK
- Influenza A (H5) - GOV.UK
- UK secures H5 influenza vaccine to boost pandemic preparedness - GOV.UK
Recent papers of note
- Scott, Z. (2024) ‘Getting Ahead of Disasters: Unpacking the Potential of Crisis Modifiers’, Risk-informed Early Action Partnership, Geneva.
- María José Marín-Miranda, Urbano Fra Paleo, Paula Redweik, Álvaro Gómez-Gutiérrez, An ontology to describe the damage process to built cultural heritage triggered by earthquakes: The CHEDO model, Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 71, 2025, Pages 114-126, ISSN 1296-2074, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2024.11.003.
- Lawinger H, Khan A, Lysen C, et al. Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Splash Pads — United States, 1997–2022. MMWR Surveill Summ 2024;73(No. SS-8):1–15. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7308a1.