Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 17th – 23rd May 2025
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 23-05-2025 02:01 PM BST
17th – 23rd May 2025
Regional Hazards
African, Eastern Mediterranean and the South-East Asia Regions
Multi-country outbreak of cholera, external situation report #26 -22 May 2025
Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru
Yellow fever - Region of the Americas
Country Hazards
Argentina
Australia
Record floodwaters in eastern Australia leave 4 dead and 1 missing | AP News
- Australia - Floods, update (New South Wales (NSW) State Emergency Service (SES), Australian BOM, media)
- Highest flood on record for Taree, rescues underway for people trapped by floodwater | NSW SES
Central African Republic
Central African Republic - Security deterioration (DG ECHO, UN OCHA)
China
China - Floods and landslides (CMA, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 21 May 2025) - China | ReliefWeb
China - Landslides and flash floods (CMA, media)
France
Var floods: Three killed after floods ravage French Riviera region - BBC News
Finland
Five killed after two helicopters collide in Finland - BBC News
Ghana
India
India: Unseasonal rainfall and hailstorms disrupt life across cities - BBC News
Severe thunderstorm kills five, disrupts transport across Delhi-NCR - The Watchers
- Bengaluru: Parts of India's 'Silicon Valley' flooded after heavy rains - BBC News
- Three dead, over 500 homes flooded after torrential rain hits Bengaluru, India - The Watchers
India - Dust storm (IMD, media)
At least 17 killed in building fire near Hyderabad's Charminar | AP News
Indonesia
Ivory coast
Myanmar
Switzerland
Eiger: Two dead in Swiss mountain avalanche - BBC News
UK
Firefighters and member of public die in fire at Bicester Motion - BBC News
USA
At least 25 dead after tornadoes sweep through US Midwest - BBC News
- Fierce tornado sweeps across town in Oklahoma - BBC News
- Large tornado touches down near Athens, Alabama, prompting Tornado Emergency - The Watchers
- A Tornado Scars Southern Illinois NASA
Two dead as Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge - BBC News
Vietnam
Other items of interest
Global
Another year, another rise in food insecurity – including famine | UN News
Fires cause record loss of tropical forests in climate threat - BBC News
WHO-WMO Climate and Health Programme is strengthened
‘Keep the lights on’ for women and girls caught up in crisis | UN News
Civilians ‘trapped and terrorised’: UN sounds alarm over collapse of critical protections | UN News
Regional
Changing Wildfires - Policy Options for a Fire-literate and Fire-adapted Europe EASAC
Country
Tokyo to waive water fees this summer to combat extreme heat - BBC News
Kenya: Refugees facing ‘lowest ever’ emergency food rations amid funding crisis | UN News
Severe wildfires in Russia’s Siberia region rage through 600,000 hectares of forest | CNN
Gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England from August - BBC News
Marine heatwave: UK sea temperatures soar after exceptionally warm Spring - BBC News
Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet Sightings and Incursion Map | British Beekeepers Association
West Nile virus detected in UK mosquitoes for first time - BBC News
Recent Papers of Note
- Munday, G., Jones, C.D., Steinert, N.J. et al. Risks of unavoidable impacts on forests at 1.5 °C with and without overshoot. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02327-9
- Stokes, C.R., Bamber, J.L., Dutton, A. et al. Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets. Commun Earth Environ 6, 351 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02299-w
- Eisenstein T, Wong M, Vahey G, Toepfer AP, Gleason B, Benedict K. Enteric Disease Outbreaks Associated with Animal Contact — Animal Contact Outbreak Surveillance System, United States, 2009–2021. MMWR Surveill Summ 2025;74(No. SS-3):1–12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7403a1.
- Muscatiello NA, Hsu W, Aydin-Ghormoz H, et al. Notes from the Field: HeatRisk Forecasts and Emergency Department Visits for Heat-Related Illness — New York, May–September 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:302–304. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7418a2.
- Lebo E, Vynnycky E, Alexander JP Jr., et al. Estimated Current and Future Congenital Rubella Syndrome Incidence with and Without Rubella Vaccine Introduction — 19 Countries, 2019–2055. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:305–311. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7418a3
- Dell'Aringa Marcelo Farah, Correa-Oliveira Gabriel Elias, Della Corte Francesco, Ragazzoni Luca, Hubloue Ives, Murray Virginia, Piazza Thais, Garcia Serpa Osorio-de-Castro Claudia, Miranda Elaine, Barone-Adesi Francesco (2025). Psychiatric drugs dispensing trends in the affected population following Brumadinho dam failure. Frontiers in Public Health. Vol 13 – 2025. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1507556 DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1507556. ISSN=2296-2565