Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 18th-25th October 2025
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 31-10-2025 03:37 PM GMT
26th – 31st October 2025
Regional Hazards
The Caribbean
- Death toll from Hurricane Melissa climbs to 49, with many still missing | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
- Hurricane Melissa leaves thousands displaced across the Caribbean | UN News
- WMO: Category 5 Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica and Caribbean islands
- Satellite video shows Hurricane Melissa intensifying near Jamaica - BBC News
- Over 700,000 children affected after Hurricane Melissa slams the Caribbean | UNICEF
- PAHO Regional Situation Report - Hurricane Melissa - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
- Deforestation boosts flash flood, landslide risk from Hurricane Melissa | AP News
Country Hazards
Australia
Australia mine explosion: man and woman killed in NSW outback - BBC News
Colombia
Cuba
Cuba: Arboviral outbreak - DREF Operation (MDRCU012) - Cuba | ReliefWeb
Flash update 01, Hurricane Melissa [EN/SP] - Cuba | ReliefWeb
Democratic Republic of the Congo
WFP, FAO call for urgent action as hunger deepens in DRC | World Food Programme
Haiti
At least 20 dead in Haiti as Hurricane Melissa hits - BBC News
India
Indonesia
Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa: Death toll rises as aid struggles to reach parts of Jamaica - BBC News
- Hurricane Melissa: Devastation in Jamaica at levels ‘never been seen before’ | UN News
- Assessing Hurricane Melissa damage in Black River, Jamaica - BBC News
- 'Everything's gone', BBC finally able to access one of Jamaica's worst-hit areas - BBC News
- What makes Hurricane Melissa such a dangerous storm? - BBC News
Kenya
Plane crashes while flying tourists to Kenya's Maasai Mara, killing 11 people | AP News
Papua New Guinea
At least 21 dead after landslide in Wapenamanda, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea - The Watchers
South Sudan
Spain
Spain - Severe weather and floods (media, AEMET) 31 October 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Sudan
- Sudan war: Reports of mass killings in el-Fasher in Darfur have echoes of country's dark past - BBC News
- ‘Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls | UN News
- Reported massacre at hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher leaves 460 dead | UN News
- WHO condemns killings of patients and civilians amid escalating violence in El Fasher, Sudan
Turkey
Turkey building collapse kills 2 children and their parents | AP News
14 migrants dead in the Aegean Sea off Turkey's coast | AP News
Uganda
United Kingdom
Man dies and three injured in Doncaster helicopter crash - BBC News
USA
USA - Severe weather (media, NOAA-WPC) 28 October 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Two fatalities reported after intense rainfall in New York City - The Watchers
Vietnam
- At least 14 dead, eight missing as central Vietnam hit by floods | DTiNews
- Flash Update: No. 01 – Flooding in Central Viet Nam – 30 October 2025 - Viet Nam | ReliefWeb
Other items of interest
Global
Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives every year, warns new Lancet Countdown report
- The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
- Climate plans don't limit dangerous warming, UN says ahead of COP - BBC News
- Climate change intensified India's heatwaves in 2024 - Lancet study - BBC News
‘Yawning gap’ remains between climate adaptation funds and funding pledges | UN News
World enters ‘new era’ of climate action – but progress must accelerate | UN News
IOM Cash-based Interventions: Annual Report and Case Studies 2024 - World | ReliefWeb
Recovery readiness framework and assessment tool | UNDRR
Multi-country outbreak of cholera, external situation report #31 -29 October 2025
Multi-country outbreak of mpox, External situation report #59 - 30 October 2025
Rift Valley fever: what it is, how it spreads and how to stop it | GAVI
‘The Great Mimicker’: meet the deadly bacterium spreading worldwide | GAVI
‘Let's finish the job’ and end polio: WHO | UN News
Towards a fairer world: Leaders gather in Doha to renew social pact | UN News
Aid cuts shutdown or suspend one in three women’s anti-violence programmes | UN News
Regional
In Southeast Asia, Guterres presses the case for climate action | UN News
Country
Bangladesh: from outbreak to preparedness: protecting Rohingya communities against cholera | WHO
France - Wildfires (media, JRC EFFIS) 28 October 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Flooding Reported in Parts of South Jakarta on 31 October
Indonesia - Floods (ADINet, BMKG) (ECHO Daily Flash of 29 October 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb
Norway - Landslides (NMI, media) 30 October 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Angry Spaniards are still demanding answers a year after Valencia's deadly floods - BBC News
Lockerbie pupils visit university which lost 35 students in Pan Am bombing - BBC News
Zambia launches malaria vaccine to protect over half million children | GAVI
Recent Papers of Note
- Nocci, M., Bortolin, M., Hertelendy, A. et al. Bridging the preparedness gap: a systematic review of recommended stockpile items for radiological and nuclear emergencies. BMC Emerg Med 25, 215 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-025-01357-y
- Talisuna AO, Karamagi HC, Saikat S, Droti B, Bisoborwa GK, Nabyonga-Orem J, Chamla D, Gueye AS and Kasolo FC (2025) Strengthening health systems for health emergency preparedness and response in Africa: integrating building system resilience to achieve universal health coverage and promote health security is a “double win”. Trop. Dis. 6:1685122. doi: 10.3389/fitd.2025.1685122
- Hawkins, R. (2025). Mental Health Vulnerability Index (MHVI): preparing communities, societies and authorities for the impacts of climate change on mental health. UCL Warning Research Centre.