Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 8th-14th November 2025
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 14-11-2025 04:41 PM GMT
8th - 14th November 2025
Regional Hazards
Americas
Philippines, Taiwan, Japan
Country Hazards
Afghanistan
Brazil
Brazil - Severe weather (media, INMET) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 November 2025) - Brazil | ReliefWeb
- Powerful tornado wrecks Brazil town, killing six and injuring hundreds | Climate News | Al Jazeera
- Deadly tornado destroys 80 percent of Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil - The Watchers
Bulgaria
Van crashes while being chased by Bulgarian police, killing six migrants | AP News
Burundi
Croatia
Turkey-registered Air Tractor AT-802 plane crashes in Croatia | AP News
Democratic Republic of the Congo
DR Congo hunger crisis worsening amid fighting and lack of aid funding | UN News
Ethiopia
- Ethiopia: UN supports response to potentially deadly virus outbreak | UN News
- WHO deploys aid to Ethiopia after 8 suspected cases of viral hemorrhagic fever reported | CIDRAP
Georgia
Turkish military plane with at least 20 on board crashes in Georgia | Aviation News | Al Jazeera
Ghana
El-Wak stadium: At least six die in crush at Ghana military recruitment event - BBC News
India
Truck rams into bus in southern India, killing at least 20 people | AP News
Indonesia
Indonesia - Landslide (BNPB, BMKG) (ECHO Daily Flash of 14 November 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb
Indonesia - Floods (BNPB, BMKG) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 November 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb
A minibus carrying Chinese tourists crashes in Bali, killing 5 passengers | AP News
Iran
Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran - BBC News
Japan
Japan battles surge of bear attacks in homes, schools and supermarkets | The Independent
Libya
Latest deadly shipwreck highlights need for safer migration | UN News
Malaysia
Nepal
Nepal: Japanese encephalitis cases continue to rise
Netherlands
Train smashes into truck at Netherlands level crossing, injuring 5 people | AP News
Pakistan
Pakistan - Landslide (media, PMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 13 November 2025) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb
Peru
Passenger bus falls into a ravine in Peru, killing at least 37 | AP News
Philippines
Portugal
Portugal - Severe weather (media, IPMA) 14 November 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Somalia
South Korea
Truck hits pedestrians in South Korea market, killing 2 people and injuring 18 | NBC News
South Sudan
Hunger and malnutrition deepen as conflict and access constraints persist in South Sudan | UNICEF
Spain
Spain - Severe weather (AEMET, media) 11 November 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Sudan
Families in Sudan ‘running out of time’ as hunger spreads | UN News
Sudan war: Women endure starvation, rape and bombs fleeing El Fasher | UN News
Taiwan
Footage shows the extent of devastation left by Fung-wong in Taiwan | Euronews
Thailand
Turkey
A fire at a perfume depot in northwestern Turkey kills 6 people | CNN
USA
Measles Cases and Outbreaks | Measles (Rubeola) | Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
4 dead, 13 injured after street racer slams into crowd at Tampa bar - BBC News
Dulles airport crash leaves 18 injured in people carrier - BBC News
A West Virginia miner's body has been found in a flooded mine | AP News
Oklahoma ammonia gas leak sends dozens to hospitals and forces evacuations | AP News
Other items of interest
Global
Protecting lives in a warming world: Health takes centre stage at COP30 | UN News
- COP30 Health Day - WHO
- WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the COP30 Leaders' Summit – 7 November 2025
- Belém Health Action Plan (BHAP),for the adaptation of the health sector to climate change
- Alliance for action on climate change and health (ATACH) - WHO
- Food Waste Breakthrough launches to help cities halve food waste, cut methane emissions and reduce hunger - UN Environment Programme
Extreme Heat Risk Governance Toolkit and Framework | UNDRR
Keeping cool on a hotter planet: COP30 pushes for sustainable cooling and AI innovation | UN News
- Amid rising heat, sustainable cooling can slash emissions and save trillions of dollars
- Global Cooling Watch 2025 | UNEP - UN Environment Programme
From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30 | UN News
‘A wave of truth’: COP30 targets disinformation threat to climate action | UN News
Global Status of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) 2025 | UNDRR
Essential research findings to support decision-making in a critical decade - 10insightsclimate
Refugee camps set to be uninhabitable by 2050 as extreme weather worsens | UN News
Safeguarding clean water access as climate threats rise | UN News
Global Tuberculosis Report 2025 - WHO
- TB cases fall for first time since pandemic | UN News
- Global gains in tuberculosis response endangered by funding challenges | WHO
Millions of lives at risk, warn UN food agencies, as hunger crisis worsens | UN News
- New FAO-WFP report warns of shrinking window to prevent millions more people facing acute food insecurity in 16 hotspots
- Hunger Hotspots. FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: November 2025 to May 2026 outlook. Rome.
Illicit weapons fuelling conflicts worldwide, officials warn | UN News
Humanitarian action annual report 2024 - World | ReliefWeb
Celebrating science, peace and development on World Science Day 2025 - International Science Council
Regional
16 Facts on Gender-Based Violence Across the Sahel - Chad : UNHCR | ReliefWeb
Medical experts say Africa faces worst cholera outbreak in 25 years | Health News | Al Jazeera
- Hurricane Melissa: Relief efforts intensify as damage across Caribbean grows | UN News
- Hurricane Melissa death toll rises to 45 in Jamaica with 15 still missing | AP News
European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) 2025 | ECDC
Demographic Change in Europe and Central Asia | International Labour Organization
Country
Stand your ground: How one community in Brazil is coping with rising tides | UN News
China - Landslide (media, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 November 2025) - China | ReliefWeb
Delhi car blast: India on edge after deadly explosion near Red Fort | CNN
Jakarta: More than 50 people injured in mosque blast at high school - BBC News
New Zealand - Wildfire (MET Service, JRC GWIS, media) 11 November 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Suicide bombing in Islamabad kills 12, says Pakistan's interior minister - BBC News
Heat impacts on health in Scotland: Deaths 2005-2024 - Public Health Scotland
Holding on to home, as the ocean engulfs the Solomon Islands | UN News
Tanzania: Reports of hundreds killed and detained following deadly election violence | UN News
Catch-up immunisation campaign ‘a lifeline’ for Gaza’s children | UN News
Recent Papers of Note
- Ospina, D., Mirazo, P., Allan, R. P., Basnett, S., Bastos, A., Bhattarai, N., Broadgate, W., Broekhoff, D. J., Bustamante, M., Chen, D., Choi, Y., Cox, P., Domeignoz-Horta, L. A., Ebi, K. L., Friedlingstein, P., Frölicher, T. L., Fuss, S., Goessling, H. F., Gruber, N., … Zhu, S. (2025).Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2025 [preprint] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17457865
- Persson I, Sturm A, Manchikanti S, Nilsson M, Ebi KL, Solomon A, et al.Impacts of climate change during pregnancy, perinatal period and infancy: a systematic review |BMJ Paediatrics Open. 2025;9:e002895. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2024-002895
- Sun S, Cao W, Chen R. Tropical cyclones and mortality risk BMJ 2025; 391 :r2208 doi:10.1136/bmj.r2208
- Huang W, Xu R, Yang Z, Otto C, Hales S, Hundessa S et al. Cause specific mortality risks associated with tropical cyclones in multiple countries and territories: two stage, time series study BMJ 2025; 391 :e084906 doi:10.1136/bmj-2025-084906
- Sabaiduc S, Kaweski SE, Separovic L, et al. Emergence of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) variants with immune escape potential warrants enhanced molecular and epidemiological surveillance for the 2025–2026 season Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada, October 2025; 10(4); doi: 10.3138/jammi-2025-0025
- Isca Evidence, & UK Health Security Agency. (2025). Effectiveness of contact tracing to reduce transmission of infectious disease as part of epidemic or pandemic response: a rapid systematic review https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17599575