Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 7th – 13th December 2024
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 13-12-2024 03:07 PM GMT
7th – 13th December 2024
Country Hazards
Cote d’Ivoire
Road accident in Ivory Coast leaves at least 26 dead and 28 injured | AP News
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Undiagnosed disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo | WHO DON
Initial samples in DR Congo unexplained outbreak positive for malaria | CIDRAP
Egypt
At least 8 killed in building collapse in Cairo | AP News
Indonesia
Heavy rains in West Java flood 172 villages, leave 10 dead in Sukabumi, Indonesia - The Watchers
Italy
Death toll in Italy's fuel depot explosion rises to 4 | AP News
Libya
Libya: Floods - Dec 2024 | ReliefWeb
Malaysia
Malaysia - Floods (ADINet, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 December 2024) - Malaysia | ReliefWeb
Mexico
Death toll from contaminated infant IV feeding bags in Mexico rises to 17 - ABC News
Netherlands
Philippines
Mass evacuation of Philippine villages underway after a brief but major volcanic eruption | AP News
South Africa
South Africa: More than 150 rescued from Mpumalanga gold mine - BBC News
South Sudan
Cholera outbreak in South Sudan ‘rapidly escalating’, aid group warns | Health News | Al Jazeera
UK
Flood warnings as thousands without power after Storm Darragh - BBC News
Two men killed by falling trees as Storm Darragh winds hit UK - BBC News
Tom Voyce: Missing rugby star's body found after Storm Darragh - BBC News
USA
H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation | Bird Flu | CDC
1 dies and another is injured when small plane crashes onto New York interstate | AP News
Other items of interest
Holding the front line against desertification | UN News
‘War on drugs has failed, completely and utterly’: UN human rights chief | UN News
Birth registration increases, but 150 million children still ‘invisible’ | UN News
Underinvestment threatens universal health coverage goals | UN News
La Niña may develop, but it is likely to be weak and short-lived
- South Africa set to face its hottest summer on record
- Severe heatwave in Australia expected this weekend
Galamsey: The deadly dig for Ghana's gold - BBC News
Recent papers of note
- Dasgupta, S., Robinson, E.J.Z., Shayegh, S. et al.Heat stress and the labour force. Nat Rev Earth Environ 5, 859–872 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00606-1
- Attila J Hertelendy, Flavio Salio, Gregory R Ciottone, Re-envisioning the response to natural disasters by leveraging WHO emergency medical teams, The Lancet, 2024, ISSN 0140-6736, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02572-8.
- Wong, M., Wyborn, L. and Holewa, H., (2024). Uplifting FAIR and CARE across Earth and Environmental Science (E&ES) Data. A Discussion Paper. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14241825
- Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze and Kleinau, Elke. "Reflections on Methodological Approaches and Challenges in Researching Children Born of War". Children and Youth at Risk in Times of Transition: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Baard Herman Borge, Elke Kleinau and Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024, pp. 25-64. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111010649-003
- López-Ejeda N, Charle-Cuéllar P, Samake S, Dougnon AO, Sánchez-Martínez LJ, Samake MN, Bagayoko A, Bunkembo M, Touré F, Vargas A, Guerrero S. Effectiveness of decentralizing outpatient acute malnutrition treatment with community health workers and a simplified combined protocol: a cluster randomized controlled trial in emergency settings of Mali. Front Public Health. 2024 Feb 21;12:1283148. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1283148. PMID: 38450139; PMCID: PMC10915236.