Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 29th March - 4th April 2025
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 04-04-2025 04:04 PM BST
29th March - 4th April 2025
Regional Hazards
Myanmar and Thailand
- BBC Verify: Satellite images show Myanmar earthquake destruction - BBC News
- Myanmar earthquake tragedy ‘compounds already dire crisis’ | UN News
- WHO scales up emergency response in earthquake–hit Myanmar, provides 100 tons of medicines and supplies, coordination of Emergency Medical Teams on the ground
Greece and Turkey
More than a dozen migrants die as boats sink off Greece and Turkey | AP News
USA and Canada
Ice storm leaves more than 450 000 customers without power in U.S. and Canada - The Watchers
USA and Mexico
Country Hazards
Angola
Cholera - Angola - Disease Outbreak News - WHO
Bolivia
Bolivia - Rainy season, update (VIDECI, SENAMHI) 04 April 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
- Bolivia declares emergency after floods kill over 50 | Reuters
- Some 30,000 cows are at risk from flooding in Bolivia's Amazon region | AP Newsroom
Canada
Hundreds of thousands of eastern Canadians face power outages due to ice storm | Reuters
Ecuador
22 dead in Ecuador floods, water crisis continues due to Esmeraldas oil spill - The Watchers
Greece
Greece - Floods (CatNat, media, media, Meteo Greece) 02 April 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
India
Gujarat warehouse explosion: ‘Water break saved me but killed my brother in India’ - BBC News
Indonesia
Indonesia - Severe weather and floods (BNPB, BMKG) 04 April 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Indonesia volcano eruption creates huge column of ash - BBC News
Lebanon
Malaysia
Dozens in hospital in Malaysia after towering blaze on Petronas gas pipeline | Reuters
Philippines
Pakistan
Pakistan - Landslide (PMD, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 31 March 2025) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb
Paraguay
Paraguay - Floods, update (DMH Paraguay, media) 04 April 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
- Paraguay - Floods (IFRC, NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 03 April 2025) - Paraguay | ReliefWeb
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Spain
Spanish mine explosion kills five workers, injures four | Mining News | Al Jazeera
Sudan
Sudan on brink of famine as fighting ravages Darfur, UN warns | UN News
USA
USA - Severe weather (NOAA, FEMA, media) 04 April 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
- Severe storms claim 7 lives across Midwest, leave nearly 1.2 million people without power - The Watchers
- What to know about the severe storms and flash flooding hitting parts of the US | AP News
- Two dead in Indiana as severe storms sweep through Central U.S. - The Watchers
- Five students injured after possible tornado tears through Dothan school, Alabama - The Watchers
Extreme rainfall, severe floods claim 3 lives in Hidalgo County, South Texas - The Watchers
At least 1 dead after plane crashes into home in Minneapolis suburb | AP News
Other items of interest
Global
47 million health workers and advocates call for cleaner air to curb pollution deaths | UN News
- Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health
- The Convention - A common framework for transboundary cooperation on air pollution and its achievements | UNECE
- WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines
UN-backed forum seeks to boost resilience of world’s Least Developed Countries | UN News
The REAP Compendium of Visualizations on Early Warning and Early Action | REAP
WHO issues its first-ever reports on tests and treatments for fungal infections
- Antifungal agents in clinical and preclinical development: overview and analysis WHO
- Landscape analysis of commercially available and pipeline in vitro diagnostics for fungal priority pathogens WHO
- WHO fungal priority pathogens list to guide research, development and public health action
WHO brings countries together to test collective pandemic response
World is ‘failing’ people with disabilities: UN deputy chief | UN News
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Regional
Africa’s Health Financing in a New Era - April, 2025 – Africa CDC
Latin America and the Caribbean Overview: April 2025 Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED)
Safer together: A path towards a fully prepared Union - European Commission
- Decode the crises of today and anticipate the threats of tomorrow
- Enable the EU to function under all circumstances
- Ensure speed of action with structures and procedures that are fit for purpose
- Empower citizens as the backbone of societal resilience and preparedness
- Leverage the full potential of public-private partnerships
- Outsmart malicious actors to deter hybrid attacks
- Scale up Europe’s defence efforts and unlock its dual-use potential
- Build mutual resilience with partners through assertive EU external action
- Harness the economics of preparedness by investing together upfront
- Moving towards comprehensive preparedness
Country
Argentina - Floods (IFRC, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 01 April 2025) - Argentina | ReliefWeb
Massive swells cause damage at Sydney's Bondi Beach - BBC News
DR Congo: Armed violence displaces thousands as cholera outbreak worsens | UN News
Iceland volcano: Residents evacuated as lava spews out - BBC News
Level 3 alert issued for Shinmoedake volcano, Japan after 200 tremors in 24 hours - The Watchers
Rocket crashes back to Earth just moments after launch in Norway - BBC News
Sudan: Sexual violence used as weapon of terror against women and girls | UN News
Birmingham City Council declares major incident over bin strike - BBC News
Recent Papers of Note
- European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Scientific Advice Mechanism – Outputs and impacts 2019-2024, Publications Office of the European Union, 2025, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/3489449
- Dickinson, S. (2024). Watching the disaster unfold: geographies of engagement with live-streamed extreme weather. Environmental Hazards, 23(5), 443–461. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2024.2324058
- Bower M, Scott LM, Smout S, et al. Locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health: protocol for a global systematic scoping review. BMJ Open2025;15:e093222. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2024-093222
- Kasule, GW, García-Basteiro, AL et al. Performance of stool Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among adults living with HIV: a multicentre, prospective diagnostic study, The Lancet Microbe, Volume 0, Issue 0, 101085
- Michelle S.W. Kusters, Laura Granés, Sami Petricola, Henning Tiemeier, Ryan L. Muetzel, Mònica Guxens, Exposure to residential air pollution and the development of functional connectivity of brain networks throughout adolescence,Volume 196, 2025, 109245, ISSN 0160-4120, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.109245.