Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 11th – 17th October 2025
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 17-10-2025 02:24 PM BST
11th – 17th October 2025
Regional Hazards
Afghanistan, Pakistan
Guadeloupe, Martinique
Country Hazards
Afghanistan
Afghan quake aftermath: Children facing heightened risk from disease | UN News
Bangladesh
Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 16 | BBC
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Guatemala
Guatemala - Floods (INSIVUMEH, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 16 October 2025) - Guatemala | ReliefWeb
Haiti
5.7 million people face food insecurity in Haiti | UN News
- Haiti - Violence and suffocating economy fueling food insecurity (DG ECHO, IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) (ECHO Daily Flash of 14 October 2025) - Haiti | ReliefWeb
- Haitians face extreme food gaps as gang violence tightens its grip across the country | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
- Haiti - Population displacement, doubled in one year (DG ECHO, IOM)(ECHO Flash of 17 Oct)
- Displacement in Haiti Reaches Record High as 1.4 Million People Flee Violence | International Organization for Migration (IOM)
India
A passenger bus in northern India catches fire, killing at least 20 people | AP News
Indonesia
Fire and explosion on oil tanker in Indonesia kills 10, injures 21 | AP News
Japan
Japan bear attacks hit record high with seven people killed this year - BBC News
Madagascar
Malaysia
Malaysia - Severe weather (MET Malaysia, media)(ECHO Flash of 17 Oct)
Mexico
- Over 120 dead and missing, 100 000 homes damaged as severe floods sweep through Mexico - The Watchers
- Mexico floods: Rescuers search for missing in towns across five states | BBC
- Deadly flooding and landslides cut off 300 communities in Mexico | AP News
- 1 week after floods, central Mexico reels from devastation | AP News
Mozambique
Namibia
Nigeria
Nigeria - Floods, update (DG ECHO, UN OCHA, WFP, NIMET, media)(ECHO Flash of 17 Oct)
Philippines
Romania
Explosion at Romanian apartment building kills 3 | AP News
Slovakia
Fast trains collide in Slovakia, injuring dozens, with 2 in critical condition | AP News
South Africa
South Africa bus crash kills at least 42 people | AP News
South Sudan
South Sudan - Floods, update (DG ECHO Partners, UN OCHA , NOAA-CPC) 15 October 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Tunisia
USA
No survivors found after Tennessee explosives plant blast | BBC
Over 150 schoolchildren quarantined as US measles cases hit 33-year high | BBC
- Typhoon Halong remnants leave 1 dead and 2 missing in western Alaska | AP News
- House drifts away from land as typhoon hits Alaska | BBC
USA - Severe weather (NOAA-WPC, media)(ECHO Flash 17th October)
Venezuela
Other items of interest
Global
- Global Assessment Report (GAR) 2025 | UNDRR
- Secretary-General's message on the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction [scroll down for French version] | United Nations Secretary-General
5 ways to fund resilience and build a safer future for all | World Economic Forum
How AI can help fund resilience, not disasters - International Telecommunications Union
- Data and AI for science: Key considerations - International Science Council
- Considerations on the environmental impact of AI in science - International Science Council
- Types of AI and their use in science - International Science Council
WHO upgrades its public health intelligence system to boost global health security | WHO
Open Science | UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board
UNESCO and CODATA launch resources on open science for crisis response
- Data policies for times of crisis facilitated by open science | PreventionWeb - UNDRR
- From launch to action: operationalising UNESCO’s open science data policies guidance for crises - CODATA, Committee on Data of the ISC
- G20 Declaration supports Early Warnings for All | WMO
- Why heat warnings need to get more local | Dialogue Earth
Global Tipping Points Report 2025 | understanding risks & their potential impact
Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024 - WMO
The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet | PreventionWeb
Ten Years of the Paris Agreement: The Present and Future of Extreme Heat – World Weather Attribution
Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns | UN News
- Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025 - WHO
- WHO warns of surging levels of antibiotic resistance | Reuters
- Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds | World Health Organization | The Guardian
Why are over 670 million people going hungry? | UN News
Conflict Plunged 63 Million Children into Hunger in 2025 | Save the Children International
Spotlight on traditional medicine at World Health Summit 2025 | WHO
Regional
Medical Product Alert N°5/2025: Substandard (contaminated) oral liquid medicines
In Africa’s Sahel, conflict and climate change force millions from their homes | UN News
Africa imports over 70% of its medicines. Making active ingredients locally would change this | GAVI
Country
Denmark to cull 150,000 chickens after bird flu outbreak | Reuters
India: Why India’s monsoon is becoming more extreme | PreventionWeb
Indonesia - Floods (ADINet, BMKG) (ECHO Daily Flash of 13 October 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb
Indonesia - Earthquake (GDACS, USGS, media)(ECHO Flash of 17 Oct)
Fire rips through historic Italian monastery | BBC
Gaza: $70 billion needed to rebuild shattered enclave, says UN | UN News
Drone captures huge fire engulfing homes in Peru | BBC
Spain - Severe weather (AEMET, METEOALARM, media) 13 October 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Recent Papers of Note
- Choudhary, A., Mehrotra, B.J., Srivastava, A.K. et al. Spatiotemporal trends in sunshine hours over India during three decades from 1988 to 2018. Sci Rep 15, 34387 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-17251-
- Specht, A., Bryceson, K., Cao, S., O’Brien, M., Guru, S.M., Correa, P.P. and Waycott, M. (2025)A Collaborative Data Network for the Asia Oceania Region Enabled by Emerging Technologies to Foster Innovation in a Secure and Open Environment. Data Science Journal, 24(), p. 1.
- Carle, H., Bauman, D., Evans, M.N. et al. Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source. Nature 646, 611–618 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09497-8
- Mpagi, R., Okidi, L. & Ongeng, D. Prevalence and antibiotic resistance characteristics of non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica serotypes isolated from food and water consumed by children under five years in Karamoja sub-region of Uganda. Food saf. and Risk 12, 8 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-025-00117-x