Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 10th – 16th May 2025

10^th – 16^th May 2025

 

Regional Hazards

El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

Tri-National Border Region of the Río Lempa: Acute Food Insecurity Situation March - May 2025 and Projections for June - September 2025 and October 2025 - February 2026 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

La Réunion and Mayotte

Chikungunya - La Réunion and Mayotte | WHO Disease Outbreak News

 

Country Hazards

Afghanistan

Afghanistan - Floods and flash floods, update (UN OCHA ROAP, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 15 May 2025) - Afghanistan | ReliefWeb

 

Algeria

Algeria - Severe weather and floods (NOAA-CPC, Meteo Algerie, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 16 May 2025) - Algeria | ReliefWeb

 

Bangladesh

Bangladesh - Severe weather (Bangladesh Meteorological Department, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 14 May 2025) - Bangladesh | ReliefWeb

MeteoNews: Tornadoes in Bangladesh – the deadliest in the world (13. May 2025)

 

Brazil

Brazil - Severe weather and floods (media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 May 2025) - Brazil | ReliefWeb

 

Canada

Canada - Wildfires (media, JRC GWIS) 16 May 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Major Canada wildfire kills two and forces 1,000 people to evacuate homes | Canada | The Guardian
• A Smoky Start to Saskatchewan’s Fire Season NASA
• Fires Erupt in North American Forests NASA

 

Central African Republic

Central African Republic - Forced displacements (DG ECHO Partners) 16 May 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

 

Chad

Plane crash in Chad kills two people on rhino monitoring mission | Reuters

 

Colombia

Colombia - Landslide (IDEAM, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 May 2025) - Colombia | ReliefWeb

• Landslide near Medellín claims five lives as heavy rains trigger regional emergency, Colombia - The Watchers

 

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo - Floods (NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 14 May 2025) - Democratic Republic of the Congo | ReliefWeb

• More than 100 dead after flooding in eastern DR Congo, officials say | Floods News | Al Jazeera

 

Ecuador

Ecuador: Yellow Fever Outbreak - May 2025 | ReliefWeb

 

Guinea

Guinea - Severe weather (Direction Nationale de la Météorologie, media) 16 May 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

 

Haiti

Haiti - Floods (UN OCHA, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 13 May 2025) - Haiti | ReliefWeb

 

India

India - Severe weather (NDMI, IMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 15 May 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

• 7 killed by lightning as heavy rains pound North Karnataka

Nipah outbreak confirmed in Malappuram, Kerala, containment zones set - Kerala News | India Today

 

Indonesia

Indonesia - Floods and landslides, update (ADINet, media, BMKG) (ECHO Daily Flash of 16 May 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

 

Italy

Italy - Earthquake (Italian Civil Protection, INGV, media) 14 May 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Earthquake swarm prompts state of emergency for Campi Flegrei, Italy - The Watchers

 

Japan

Japan retrieves remains of 1 of 2 service members whose training plane crashed | AP News

 

Libya

Libya’s fragile peace tested again as new clashes roil Tripoli | UN News

 

Martinique

Martinique (France) - Floods (COGIC, Meteo France, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 14 May 2025) - Martinique (France) | ReliefWeb

 

Mexico

Mexico crash: At least 21 killed in Puebla - BBC News

 

Morocco

Measles - Morocco | WHO Disease Outbreak News

 

Myanmar

Myanmar - Airstrike (DG ECHO, Local Media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 13 May 2025) - Myanmar | ReliefWeb

 

Papua New Guinea

Polio outbreak confirmed in Papua New Guinea, World Health Organization says - ABC News

 

Paraguay

Paraguay - Floods (UN OCHA, Meteo Paraguay, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 13 May 2025) - Paraguay | ReliefWeb

 

Saudi Arabia

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | WHO Disease Outbreak News

 

Spain

13 injured as car crashes into crowd at Espanyol-Barcelona match | BBC

 

Somalia

Somalia - Floods, update (UN OCHA, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 15 May 2025) - Somalia | ReliefWeb

• Floods kill 10 and wreak havoc in Somalian capital | AP News

 

Sri Lanka

Passenger bus skids off a cliff in Sri Lanka, killing 21 people and injuring 35 | AP News

 

Tanzania

Tanzania - Floods (IFRC, Meteo Tanzania) 16 May 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

 

Thailand

Thailand - Floods (ADINet, Thai Meteorological Department, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 13 May 2025) - Thailand | ReliefWeb

 

The Occupied Palestinian Territories

Gaza Strip: IPC Acute Food Insecurity and Acute Malnutrition Special Snapshot | April - September 2025 (Published on 12 May 2025) - occupied Palestinian territory | ReliefWeb

• Gaza: 57 children reported dead from malnutrition, says WHO | UN News
• People in Gaza starving, sick and dying as aid blockade continues | WHO
• Gaza: Starvation looms for one in five people, say food security experts | UN News

 

USA

USA - Severe weather and flash floods (NOAA WPC, media) 15 May 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• One person killed in Virginia as flash floods strike Mid-Atlantic - The Watchers

Disaster declared for Alice as storms rip through southern Texas - The Watchers

1 killed, 32 injured in collision of bus and SUV on Los Angeles area freeway | AP News

 

Vietnam

Viet Nam - Severe weather (ADINet, NCHMF Vietnam, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 May 2025) - Viet Nam | ReliefWeb

 

Other items of interest

Global

Number of internally displaced breaks new record with no let-up in conflicts, disasters | UN News

• 2025 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) | IDMC - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

WHO warns of slowing global health gains in new statistics report

• World health statistics 2025: monitoring health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
• ‘The world is failing its health checkup,’ says WHO | UN News

WHO Fourteenth General Programme of Work, 2025-2028

One World for Health: The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly convenes from 19 to 27 May 2025

Emergency medical teams WHO

• Standards and recommendations for burns care in mass casualty incidents WHO
• Classification and minimum standards for emergency medical teams WHO
• A guidance document for medical teams responding to health emergencies in armed conflicts and other insecure environments WHO
• Sixth Emergency Medical Teams Global Meeting report, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 5-7 November 2024

Safeguarding Home Insurance: Reducing exposure and vulnerability to extreme weather Geneva Association

Half of women’s organizations in crisis zones risk closure within six months | UN News

Global Humanitarian Overview 2025, April Update (Snapshot as of 30 April 2025) - World | ReliefWeb

WHO Results Report 2024 shows health progress across regions overcoming critical challenges | WHO

Nursing workforce grows, but inequities threaten global health goals | WHO

 

Regional

The 2025 Heatwave in Southeast Asia: A Window Into the Future

ECDC charts future path for public health resilience through strategic foresight

Extreme weather and climate change impacts hit Africa hard | World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

• State of the Climate in Africa 2024 Report | World Meteorological Organization
• Climate change takes increasingly extreme toll on African countries | UN News

More than 50 million in West and Central Africa at risk of hunger | UN News

 

Country

Funding cuts in Afghanistan mean ‘lives lost and lives less lived’ | UN News

South Australia fish kill: Toxic algae poisons 200 marine species - BBC News

Watch: Wildlife dyed blue in São Paulo chemical spill - BBC News

Massive hailstorm in Beijing shatters windshields, causes traffic and flight chaos - The Watchers

Greece - Earthquake Daily Flash

Guatemala - Volcanic eruption (INSIVUMEH, CONRED) (ECHO Daily Flash of 13 May 2025) - Guatemala | ReliefWeb

Ashfall blankets Kagoshima City after eruption at Sakurajima volcano, Japan - The Watchers

Why the mighty Himalayas are getting harder and harder to see - BBC News

Somalia: Over 55,000 children at risk of illness and death as aid cuts force nutrition centres to close - Somalia | ReliefWeb

Fire at chemical plant in northeastern Spain keeps thousands indoors | AP News

Exceptionally low river levels forecast in parts of the UK - BBC News

Mosquito-borne killer disease threatens blackbirds - BBC News

 

Recent Papers of Note

• Ang Li, and Claire Leppold, Long-term mental health trajectories across multiple exposures to climate disasters in Australia: a population-based cohort study The Lancet Public Health, Volume 10, Issue 5, e391 - e400
• Sheehan MC, Boned-Ombuena A, Cash-Gibson L, Damis-Wulff A, Fox MA. A global assessment of urban extreme weather early warning systems and public health engagement. Bull World Health Organ. 2025 May 1;103(5):294-303. doi: 10.2471/BLT.24.292205. Epub 2025 Mar 7. PMID: 40342854; PMCID: PMC12057222.
• The impact of urban fires on public health. Bull World Health Organ. 2025 May 1;103(5):290-291. doi: 10.2471/BLT.25.020525. PMID: 40342850; PMCID: PMC12057281.
• Huang, T., Li, Y., Li, J., Sung, J. J. Y., & Yim, S. H. L. (2025). PM₅-associated premature mortality attributable to hot-and-polluted episodes and the inequality between the Global North and the Global South. GeoHealth, 9, e2024GH001290. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001290
• Ghai RR, Sajewski ET, Blass M, et al. Cave-Associated Histoplasmosis Outbreak Among Travelers Returning from Costa Rica — Georgia, Texas, and Washington, December 2024–January 2025. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:289–292. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7417a1.