Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 8th - 14th March 2025
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 14-03-2025 03:44 PM GMT
8th - 14th March 2025
Regional Hazards
Africa
Multi-country outbreak of mpox, External situation report #48 - 10 March 2025
Europe
European Region reports highest number of measles cases in more than 25 years – UNICEF, WHO/Europe
ECDC: Measles on the rise again in Europe: time to check your vaccination status
Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar
Country Hazards
Afghanistan
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Australia cyclone: Mass blackouts and flooding in storm-affected states - BBC News
Twelve ADF soldiers in hospital after trucks roll in NSW flood zone - ABC News
Adelaide Hills farmers and households struggling as dams, tanks and waterways dry up - ABC News
Tasmania dealing with bushfires, hail as storm front sweeps over - ABC News
Bangladesh
Benin
Benin - Severe weather (IFRC, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 13 March 2025) - Benin | ReliefWeb
Brazil
A fire at a homeless shelter in Brazil kills 4 people | AP News
Heat wave in southern Brazil prompts five cities to suspend classes | AP News
Colombia
Colombia - Landslide (media, IDEAM) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 March 2025) - Colombia | ReliefWeb
Democratic Republic of Congo
Egypt
At least 8 people are killed when a passenger train slams into a minibus in Egypt | AP News
Ethiopia
Haiti
India
Indonesia
Landslide kills 7 at illegal gold mine in Indonesia's Maluku-Xinhua
Italy
Italy - Earthquake (Italian Civil Protection, INGV, media) 13 March 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Naples residents camp outdoors after overnight quake - BBC News
Malaysia
Mexico
Bus accident in Southern Mexico leaves at least 18 dead and 20 injured | AP News
Mozambique
Cyclone Jude leaves 14 dead, thousands of families displaced in Mozambique-Xinhua
Nigeria
South Africa
16 are dead and dozens are hurt after a bus flips on a highway in South Africa | AP News
Sudan
Nearly 100 people died of cholera in less than a month in Sudan's White Nile State | AP News
Sudan war: Children facing ‘unimaginable suffering’, warns UNICEF chief | UN News
Tanzania
Tanzania reports first mpox cases as African officials look for more vaccine doses | CIDRAP
The Occupied Palestinian Territories
Gaza power cut impacts safe water access for hundreds of thousands | UN News
Tonga
Tonga: Dengue Fever Outbreak: Situation Report #23 - 14th March 2025 - Tonga | ReliefWeb
Syria
Uganda
UK
North Sea tanker: Tanker in North Sea collision was carrying jet fuel for US military - BBC News
USA
15 injured when school bus overturns on Garden State Parkway in New Jersey | AP News
American Airlines jet burns as passengers evacuate on to wing - BBC News
Measles Cases and Outbreaks | Measles (Rubeola) | CDC
H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation | Bird Flu | CDC
State of emergency issued as fires sweep through New York's Long Island | US News | Sky News
Zimbabwe
5 children killed and 2 others are missing after a dam collapses in Zimbabwe | AP News
Other items of interest
‘Anxiety, paranoia, fear’: The consequences of digital violence against women | UN News
Human Rights Council: Significant increase in child victims of trafficking | UN News
Many pregnancy-related complications going undetected and untreated – WHO
- Science diplomacy in an era of disruption
- Executive summary: science diplomacy in an era of disruption.pdf
Severe flooding in Bolivia destroys crops and homes | Euronews
Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts and forces evacuations | AP News
Florence and Pisa on alert as flooding hits northern Italy - BBC News
Japan MSDF helicopters that crashed last year brought ashore | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
A third of Myanmar’s population faces food insecurity: UN human rights experts | OHCHR
Thousands risk crocodile-infested river to escape Rwanda’s savage M23 militia | The Telegraph
The Growing Challenge of Urban Wildfires | National Academies
6 rescued after mudslides trap vehicles in San Jacinto, California - The Watchers
Recent Papers of Note
- Wettstein ZS, Parrish C, Sabbatini AK, Rogers MH, Seto E, Hess JJ. Emergency Care, Hospitalization Rates, and Floods. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(3):e250371. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0371
- Cox, S. C., Ettema, M. H. J., Chambers, L. A., Stephens, S. A., Bodeker, G. E., Nguyen, Q., et al. (2025). Empirical models of shallow groundwater and multi-hazard flood forecasts as sea-levels rise. Earth's Future, 13, e2024EF004977. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004977
- Holst MM, Wittry BC, Crisp C, Torres J, Irving D, Nicholas D. Contributing Factors of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks — National Outbreak Reporting System, United States, 2014–2022. MMWR Surveill Summ 2025;74(No. SS-1):1–12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7401a1.
- Say L, Chou D, Gemmill A, Tunçalp Ö, Moller AB, Daniels J, Gülmezoglu AM, Temmerman M, Alkema L. Global causes of maternal death: a WHO systematic analysis. Lancet Glob Health. 2014 Jun;2(6):e323-33. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70227-X. Epub 2014 May 5. PMID: 25103301.
- Naumann RB, West BA, Barry V, Matthews S, Lee R. Pedestrian and Overall Road Traffic Crash Deaths — United States and 27 Other High-Income Countries, 2013–2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:134–139. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7408a2.
- Ahmadi-Abhari S, Bandosz P, Shipley MJ, Lindbohm JV, Dehghan A, Elliott P, Kivimaki M. Direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and person-years of life lost with and without disability: A systematic analysis for 18 European countries, 2020-2022. PLoS Med. 2025 Mar 11;22(3):e1004541. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004541. PMID: 40067869.