World Status Report

This report intends to give the UTD Community a snapshot of international risks, and other issues as reported by the linked media and official sources from the U.S. and other countries. 

More health and security information for each country can be found in the travel advisories issued by the governments of the United States, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, and the CDC, ECDC, and WHO sites. Not all advise in these sites will apply to US travelers. 

Please note the publication date of this report and go to the direct sources linked for the most up-to-date information. The information in this report may change without prior notice. 

Security 

• Second wave of exploding devices raises fears of wider Israel-Lebanon conflict (Reuters) – Hand-held radios used by armed group Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon’s south in the country’s deadliest day since cross-border fighting erupted between the militants and Israel nearly a year ago, stoking tensions after similar explosions of the group’s pagers the day before. Lebanon’s health ministry said 20 people were killed and more than 450 injured on Wednesday in Beirut’s suburbs and the Bekaa Valley, while the death toll from Tuesday’s explosions rose to 12, including two children, with nearly 3,000 injured. 
• Russian attacks on Ukraine energy set to push 500,000 people out of country (UN News) – The strikes on the national grid included one coordinated attack on 26 August which the Mission described in a new report as one of Russia’s largest since the onset of the full-scale invasion, involving “more than 100 missiles and 100 drones across numerous regions in Ukraine, primarily targeting energy and other infrastructure. Power cuts were implemented nationwide to stabilize the grid.” There have been “nine waves of long-range and large-scale coordinated attacks” on Ukraine’s electric power system between 22 March and 31 August 2024, the report noted. 
• Two men killed in police operation in New Caledonia (Reuters) – Police killed two men during an overnight operation in the French territory of New Caledonia amid unrest between indigenous Kanaks and French loyalists, the Noumea prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. The killings raise to 13 the death toll on the Pacific island since the start of a crisis triggered by a controversial voting reform that was suspended in June. The incident took place in Saint Louis, a stronghold of the independence movement south of Noumea, as police searched for about a dozen people suspected of involvement in armed robbery and attacks on security forces, the statement said. 
• Indigenous man shot dead as land dispute in Brazil farm state escalates (Reuters) – In Brazil, a man from the Guarani community was shot dead on Wednesday morning, a governmental protection agency for Indigenous communities said, as a land dispute in the farm state of Mato Grosso do Sul escalated. It comes after a violent confrontation in early August during which armed men, backed by farmers in trucks and tractors, attacked Indigenous people reclaiming land in the vast farming state, injuring 11 of them. 

Environment 

• Japan, China, South Korea – Tropical storm PULASAN (ERCC) – Tropical Storm PULASAN crossed Okinawa island, Ryukyu Island, southern Japan on 18 September and is moving northwest towards eastern China. On 19 September at 0.00 UTC, its centre is located in the East China Sea approximately 508 km south-east of Shangai city, eastern China, with maximum sustained winds of 74 km/h. 
• Philippines, Viet Nam – Tropical depression SIXTEEN (ERCC) – Tropical depression SIXTEEN (named GENER in the Philippines) crossed the northern Philippines on 16-17 September, moved over the South China Sea and continued towards central-eastern Vietnam. On 19 September, its center is located in approximately 114 km north-east of Dong-Ha city, Quang Tri province, eastern Viet Nam, with maximum sustained winds of 56 km/h. The passage of tropical depression SIXTEEN, and the south-west monsoon resulted in 23 fatalities, 15 missing people and more than one million of affected people across 13 regions of the country, as reported by national authorities. 
• Peru – Wildfires (ERCC) – At least 222 wildfires have been affecting Peru since 13 September, resulting in casualties and damage. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), as of 15 September, at least 14 people died, 96 have been injured, 1,876 have been displaced due to wildfires, 25 of which are still active. Over the next 24 hours, according to the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), the fire danger forecast is from high to locally extreme in the southern part of the country. On 18 September, President Baluarte declared the state of emergency in three regions: Amazonas, San Martin and Ucayali. 
• Italy – Floods (ERCC) – As of 19 September, approximately 1,250 displaced people, of which around 720 in the Ravenna province, where the worst affected area are the Faenza and the Castel Bolognese municipalities and 358 displaced people across the Bologna province. In addition, media also reports a number of affected municipalities and villages throughout the aforementioned provinces: Cotignola, Lugo, Villa San Martino and Zagonara. 
• Firefighters quell some of Portugal’s worst wildfires, fight still on (Reuters) – Thousands of firefighters tackling deadly wildfires in central and northern Portugal had largely doused the flames in the Aveiro district, one of the worst-hit, as of Thursday morning, and were focusing on a dozen blazes still raging elsewhere. After five days of ravaging tens of thousands of hectares of forest and farmland, destroying houses and claiming seven lives, the fires in Oliveira de Azemeis, Albergaria-a-Velha and Sever da Vouga in the northwestern district of Aveiro were no longer listed as active on the civil protection service’s fires portal. 

Health 

• Study forecasts more than 39 million deaths from antimicrobial resistance by 2050 (CIDRAP) – Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections could take the lives of more than 39 million people by 2050 unless action is taken to improve healthcare quality, prevent infections, reduce inappropriate antibiotic use, and develop new antibiotics, according to a landmark new study published this week in The Lancet. More than a million people will die annually from 2025 to 2050 from an antibiotic-resistant infection, with an estimated 1.91 million dying in 2050.  
• Gavi, Bavarian Nordic sign deal to speed mpox vaccine doses for Africa (CIDRAP) – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Bavarian Nordic today announced an advanced purchase agreement to secure 500,000 doses of Jynneos mpox vaccine for African countries, which will be delivered this year. Africa is facing a complex and quickly escalating mpox outbreak, with a novel clade 1b clade spreading in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a handful of neighboring countries. The endemic clade 1 strain and the global clade 2 virus are fueling cases in several countries.  
• Study finds high prevalence of multidrug-resistant Campylobacter in East African poultry (CIDRAP) – Analysis of Campylobacter isolates in East Africa found that multidrug resistance (MDR) was significantly higher in poultry than in people, researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases. For the study, an international team of researchers collected and explored the population structure of 178 Campylobacter isolates from Kenya and Tanzania, including 81 from patients with diarrhea and 97 from poultry samples.  

Please note the publication date of this report and go to the direct sources linked for the most up-to-date information. The information in this report may change without prior notice. 

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