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Bookmark or Share- Landslides - World Health Organization (WHO)Landslide; mudslide; landslides; mudslides; rockslide; emergency; natural disaster; crises
- Volcanic eruptions - World Health Organization (WHO)Volcanic eruptions can also cause secondary events, such as floods, landslides and mudslides, if there are accompanying rain, snow or melting ice. Hot ashes can also start wildfires. Volcanic eruptions can impact climate change through emitting volcanic gases like sulfur dioxide, which causes global cooling, and volcanic carbon dioxide, which ...
- Earthquakes - World Health Organization (WHO)An earthquake is a violent and abrupt shaking of the ground, caused by movement between tectonic plates along a fault line in the earth’s crust. Earthquakes can result in the ground shaking, soil liquefaction, landslides, fissures, avalanches, fires and tsunamis. The extent of destruction and harm caused by an earthquake depends on: the risk ...
- Disaster in Viet Nam - World Health Organization (WHO)Flash floods and landslides in the northern provinces of Viet Nam in June 2018 led to 19 deaths; 11 went missing and 12 were injured. There were 2 221 houses that were damaged, inundated or destroyed, and more than 1 203 hectares of crops perished in floods. Two hundred fifty one (251) cattle and around 6 000 livestock were also killed.
- Typhoid - World Health Organization (WHO)Persons with typhoid fever carry the bacteria in their bloodstream and intestinal tract. Symptoms include prolonged high fever, fatigue, headache, nausea, abdominal pain, and constipation or diarrhoea. Some patients may have a rash. Severe cases may lead to serious complications or even death. Typhoid fever can be confirmed through blood testing.
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