Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 20th – 26th February 2026
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 27-02-2026 04:29 PM GMT
20th – 26th February 2026
Country Hazards
Afghanistan
Afghanistan - Humanitarian Crisis | Echo Daily Flash
Austria
Austria - Snow avalanches | Echo Daily Flash
Brazil
Brazil – Severe Weather, floods and landslides, update | Echo Daily Flash
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Floods | Echo Daily Flash
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Floods | Echo Daily Flash
Haiti
Haiti – Internal displacement situation amid increasing insecurity | Echo Daily Flash
Indonesia
Indonesia - Severe weather and floods | Echo Daily Flash
Italy
Italy - Snow avalanches | Echo Daily Flash
Malaysia
Malaysia - Floods | Echo Daily Flash
Mexico
Mexico - Escalating Violence | Echo Daily Flash
Mongolia
Mongolia - Severe weather | Echo Daily Flash
Nepal
Bus plunges off a Nepal highway, killing 19 and injuring 25 | AP News
Pakistan
Peru
Peru - Severe weather, floods and landslides, update | Echo Daily Flash
Philippines
Philippines - Landslides | Echo Daily Flash
Russia
A tour bus plunges into Russia's frozen Lake Baikal, killing 8 | AP News
Somalia
Somalia: Number of people going hungry nearly doubles in a year | UN News
USA
USA - Severe weather | Echo Daily Flash
Massachusetts house explosion injures at least 2 people | AP News
Uzbekistan
Uzbek Authorities Investigate Mass Food Poisoning at Some Kindergartens - The Times Of Central Asia
Other items of interest
Global
UNHCR WASH manual – Practical guidance for refugee settings | UNHCR
Avalanches in Europe and the US: Have there been more this winter? - BBC News
UN drug alert stops shipment that could have made 1.6 billion lethal fentanyl doses | UN News
Organized crime and poor regulation to blame for toxic pollution threat | UN News
Regional
Country
South Sudan: Funding gaps threaten nearly 2 million displaced people | UN News
Recent Papers of Note
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Global burden of lower respiratory infections associated with antimicrobial resistance: insights from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 - AMR Insights
- Zhang, Z., et al. Global burden of lower respiratory infections associated with antimicrobial resistance: insights from the Global Burden of Disease 2021. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-026-01720-z
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Identifying hotspots and impact factors of multi-type compound events over major global river basins - ScienceDirect
- Zou, L., et al. Identifying hotspots and impact factors of multi-type compound events over major global river basins. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 670, 2026, 135181, ISSN 0022-1694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2026.135181.