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2,391 signals for Disaster+Health+Supply Chain · United States

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇲🇽Mexico436d ago

See all DONs related to this event Read more about Situation at a glance On 11 March 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) received a report from the International Health Regulation (2005) (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) of the United States of America (United States) on the ongoing measles outbreak in the country, notified under IHR because it is an unusual event with potential significant public health impact, with the number of cases and deaths in 2025 exceeding the numbers in previous years. Additionally, cases linked to the outbreak in the State of Texas, United States, have been reported in Mexico. Measles is a highly contagious, airborne viral disease that can lead to severe complications and death.

5.7/10·WHO Disease Outbreak News

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Supply ChainCrisis🇺🇸United Statesyesterday

The scientific community is warning that EM-DAT, the world's largest disaster database, faces extinction due to cancelled American funding. The platform is widely used by governments and international institutions to evaluate natural disaster risks, damages, and national vulnerabilities.

5.5/10·RFI Français

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United Statesyesterday

Texas confirmed a second infected calf and declared a state of disaster in response to the outbreak, implementing a ban on cattle movement or trade.

5.5/10·BBC World·Texas

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HealthUpdate🇺🇸United Statesyesterday

A major study analyzing data from nearly 590,000 American workers finds that the shift to remote work post-pandemic has contributed to approximately one-third of the increase in mental health disorders in the U.S. over recent years. Remote workers reported spending an additional hour per day in solitude, with 72% more experiencing entire days without human contact, leading to measurable increases in anxiety, psychiatric visits, and antidepressant prescriptions—effects most pronounced among those living alone.

5.5/10·The Insider Russia·New York

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇷🇺Russia2d ago

NASA has placed five astronauts on alert for possible emergency evacuation from the International Space Station after a worsening air leak was detected in the Russian segment, which a Russian team is attempting to repair.

5.5/10·Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil — Portuguese)

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇷🇺Russia2d ago

NASA ordered astronauts aboard the International Space Station to prepare for emergency evacuation after an air leak in Russia's Zvezda module worsened. The agency later stood down the alert, but the incident underscores persistent atmospheric integrity issues on the aging ISS.

5.5/10·Business Standard

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Supply ChainUpdate🇺🇸United States 🇮🇷Iran3d ago

Energy analysts warn that even if US-Iran tensions de-escalate, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and repairing damaged infrastructure could take months or years, prolonging a global energy and supply chain crisis.

5.5/10·Deutsche Welle (DW) English

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DisasterCrisis🇺🇸United States3d ago

An implosion of a chemical storage tank at a Nippon Dynawave Packaging mill in Longview, Washington killed 11 people. The facility owner announced it will continue paying employees through early August despite the facility being offline for repairs.

5.5/10·Washington State Standard·Washington, Washington

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United States11d ago

<p>Damage from the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/05/21/broadview-ice-protest-grand-jury-transcript-kat-abughazaleh-trump" target="_blank" >“Broadview Six”</a> case officially began to spread Tuesday, with defense attorneys in the high-profile case against an ex-Loretto Hospital executive<b> </b>and others now claiming that misconduct allegations against a<b> </b>prosecutor<b> </b>common to both cases<b> </b>were known for months.</p><p>“There is reason to believe that the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois was aware of allegations related to [the prosecutor] at least several months ago, when the defense in the Broadview Six case began pushing for disclosures,” wrote defense attorneys Gabrielle<b> </b>Sansonetti<b> </b>and<b> </b>Patrick<b> </b>Blegen.</p><p>Sansonetti<b> </b>and<b> </b>Blegen<b> </b>represent<b> </b>Mahmood<b> </b>Sami<b> </b>Khan, who was once employed by onetime<b> </b>Loretto<b> </b>chief<b> </b>financial<b> </b>officer Anosh<b> </b>Ahmed. They are now charged together in a fraud case formerly handled by Sheri<b> </b>Mecklenburg, the onetime lead prosecutor in the “Broadview Six” case.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center> <div class="RelatedList-title">Related</div> <ul class="RelatedList-items"> <li class="RelatedList-items-item"> <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/05/26/broadview-six-andrew-boutros-kat-abughazaleh-ice-trump-chicago" >Grand jurors in tainted ‘Broadview 6' case had contact with Chicago’s top federal prosecutor, defense says</a> </li> </ul> </div> <p>Also charged in the case related to Loretto Hospital are Mohamed<b> </b>Sirajudeen<b> </b>and<b> </b>Suhaib<b> </b>Ahmad<b> </b>Chaudhry.</p><p>Mecklenburg wrote earlier this year that the case arose “out of a single, widespread scheme to submit more than $800 million in false claims to the United States Health Resources and Services Administration … for reimbursement of COVID-19 testing of uninsured individuals.”</p><p>The scheme lasted from June 2021 to March 2022, Mecklenburg wrote, “when the government program ran out of money.”</p><p>But Khan’s defense attorneys now say the case should be permanently dismissed, just as the Broadview case was last week.</p><p>Their motion doesn’t mention Mecklenburg by name, but she is the only prosecutor involved in both cases.</p><p>Sansonetti<b> </b>and<b> </b>Blegen<b> </b>wrote that prosecutors disclosed potential misconduct in the fraud case involving Ahmed and Khan during a meeting Friday. Specifically, they were told of potential “vouching”<b> </b>— in which a prosecutor improperly puts their credibility on the line to push an indictment.</p><p>The defense attorneys were told prosecutors planned to seek a new indictment to cure any potential taint.</p><p>U.S.

5.5/10·Chicago Sun-Times·Chicago, Illinois

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Supply ChainUpdate🇵🇦Panama 🇺🇸United States 🇮🇷Iran17d ago

Rising tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are driving a sharp increase in U.S. energy exports routed through the Panama Canal toward Asia and Pacific markets, pushing the canal toward operational capacity limits.

5.5/10·gCaptain·Panama Canal

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DisasterUpdate🇺🇸United States17d ago

Two Alaska Native villages devastated by Typhoon Halong are pursuing relocation to higher ground, with community leaders testifying before the U.S. Senate about the need for federal support to establish new village sites and airstrips. The remnants of the typhoon caused record flooding in rural Alaska, displacing residents through the winter months.

5.5/10·Anchorage Daily News·Kipnuk; Kwigillingok, Alaska

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DisasterCrisis🇺🇸United States18d ago

A wildfire in southern California near Simi Valley has forced the evacuation of more than 17,000 people as the blaze threatens homes on the city's outskirts.

5.5/10·Danas (Serbia)·Simi Valley, California

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Supply ChainResolution🇺🇸United States18d ago

After a wage deal was reached, 3,500 Long Island Rail Road workers ended their strike, the first in more than three decades. The walkout had disrupted the nation's busiest commuter rail line.

5.5/10·Honolulu Star-Advertiser·New York, New York

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Supply ChainCrisis🇺🇸United States29d ago

US factories have frozen orders typically shipped in April for July 4 summer events, citing a dramatic 145 percentage point spike in tariffs following Trump's 'Liberation Day' levies announced last year. The tariff shock has created uncertainty in holiday retail supply chains.

5.5/10·The Kathmandu Post (Nepal)

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DisasterCrisis🇺🇸United States29d ago

A Frontier Airlines plane struck and killed a pedestrian on a Denver airport runway, triggering an engine fire and requiring passengers to evacuate the aircraft.

5.5/10·Global News Canada·Denver, Colorado

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HealthResolution🇩🇪Germany 🇫🇷France 🇧🇪Belgium+529d ago

Five European nations plus the EU, US, and UK have mobilized planes to repatriate nationals from a cruise ship struck by an Andes virus outbreak. As of Friday, 8 cases including 3 deaths have been confirmed, with six cases definitively identified as Andes virus and four patients hospitalized. One previously suspected case has tested negative and been reclassified. Authorities have identified and begun monitoring 75 secondary contacts from a flight connecting South Africa to St. Helena.

5.5/10·The Guardian World

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Supply ChainCrisis🇦🇷Argentina 🇲🇽Mexico 🇧🇷Brazil+229d ago

More than 2.4 million files are backing up within Latin American and Miami consular networks, overwhelming administrative capacity and creating delays in visa processing and citizenship services across Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, and Cuba.

5.5/10·14ymedio (Cuba — Spanish)·Mexico

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇲🇽Mexico29d ago

Billions of gallons of wastewater have flowed from the Tijuana River into San Diego communities, prompting local leaders to expedite cleanup and remediation plans to protect public health and restore water safety.

5.5/10·CalMatters·San Diego, California

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United States29d ago

<p>Slain Chicago police Officer John Bartholomew was remembered Friday as a man who was "truly loved by all" and whose "heart was pure."</p><p>Hundreds of mourners, among them police, officials and loved ones, gathered at St. Andrew's Greek Orthodox Church in Edgewater to say their final farewells to Bartholomew, who was shot and killed <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/04/25/officers-reportedly-injured-shooting-chicago-swedish-hospital-lincoln-square" target="_blank" >April 25 at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital</a>. A robbery suspect who Bartholomew and his partner had brought to the hospital is accused of opening fire inside a CT room, killing Bartholomew and critically wounding his partner, who Chicago's top cop said Friday is improving but has "a long way to go" in his recovery.</p><p>Bartholomew’s brother, James Bartholomew, said emotions were heavy and losing his brother was like “being frozen in time.”</p><p>“He wasn’t only my brother, he was my best friend.

5.5/10·Chicago Sun-Times·Chicago, Illinois

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United States30d ago

More than 80 environmental and public health groups nationwide are calling on federal authorities to take immediate action on nitrate contamination in the Mississippi River and rural water supplies, citing documented links to disease. The contamination is reported to be especially severe in agricultural regions.

5.5/10·MinnPost

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DisasterUpdate🇺🇸United States30d ago

U.S. meteorological authorities have warned of a possible 'Super Niño' phenomenon expected in 2026 that could trigger extreme rainfall across the Pacific basin while reducing Atlantic hurricane activity. The forecast carries implications for agricultural yields, water management, and insurance markets across multiple regions.

5.5/10·La Prensa Libre (Guatemala — Spanish, expanded)

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Supply ChainResolution🇮🇷Iran 🇺🇸United States31d ago

Iran will control Strait of Hormuz 'forever', former senior US official says Iran will control Strait of Hormuz 'forever', former senior US official says Submitted by Sean Mathews on Wed, 05/06/2026 - 21:15 In a Bloomberg interview, Amos Hochstein said the oil shortages that poor countries are experiencing could move to the West A woman crosses a street near a billboard on the facade of a building depicting the Strait of Hormuz with a caption in Persian reading 'Forever in Iran’s Hand', at Vanak Square in Tehran, Iran, on 6 May 2026 (AFP) Off Iran will control the Strait of Hormuz “forever”, regardless of what a peace deal between the US and the Islamic Republic says, forcing Gulf states to build new pipelines to bypass Iran’s chokehold, a former senior US official said on Tuesday. “The Strait of Hormuz is under Iranian control forever - basically for the foreseeable future,” Amos Hochstein, an energy and Middle East adviser to former US President Joe Biden, told Bloomberg. “Nobody in the market should look at what the deal says eventually and believe it on [the] straits.

5.5/10·Middle East Eye

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United Statesyesterday

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United State (US) CDC on Friday urged strong public health interventions against the current Ebola outbreak, citing their models that show it could otherwise rival the scale of the 2014 West Africa outbreak. That eruption of the virus resulted in more than 28,000 cases and more than 11,000 deaths. "That scale is possible," said Jason Asher, director of CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, during a press briefing.

5.3/10·Jamaica Observer (expanded)·Washington, District of Columbia

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United Statesyesterday

<p>Researchers have long known that people living with HIV, even those taking antiretroviral therapy, are more likely to experience cognitive impairments like memory loss than other people but hadn’t fully understood why.</p><p>Now, a <a class="Link" href="https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(26)00178-9" target="_blank" >new study</a> published Friday in the medical journal Med finds that widely used flu medications have the potential to reduce cognitive decline as well as premature aging in this population, said Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, an associate professor of infectious diseases at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, whose team was involved in the study.</p><p>“It is pointing to a new mechanism that has not been described in or outside of the HIV field,” said Abdel-Mohsen. “The fact that there was at least a proof of concept of drugs that is actually showing an effect is pretty promising.”</p><p>Using samples from people with HIV who have cognitive impairments and those who don’t, researchers found a pattern of a degradation of protective sugar molecules, known as glycans, that usually protect people from inflammation, Abdel-Mohsen said.</p><p>The inflammation is tied to cognitive impairments, he said.

5.3/10·Chicago Sun-Times

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DisasterCrisis🇷🇴Romania 🇮🇳India 🇺🇸United States+116d ago

Tara Menon, whose debut novel has become one of the most acclaimed literary debuts of 2026 internationally, will attend a launch event in Bucharest on May 28 for the Romanian edition of her novel Under Water/Sub Apǎ . The event is organized by Editura Litera and will take place at Cărturești Carusel. The event will feature a dialogue between Tara Menon and Romanian writer Ioana Bâldea Constantinescu.

5.3/10·Romania Insider·Bucharest, Bucharest

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