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 

• One dead in apparent shooting in rare case of gun violence in China (AP News) – One person has died in an apparent shooting at an outdoor restaurant in the city of Wuhan in what would be a rare case of gun violence in China. A police statement said Monday that two other people were injured on Sunday night in what it called a case of “deliberate injury” resulting from a dispute. 
• Car bomb explodes near a market in Pakistan’s southwest, killing 4 (AP News) – A car bomb exploded near a market in Pakistan’s restive southwest, killing four people and wounding 20 others, a government official said Monday, as violence intensifies in the region. 
• Mexican security forces kill 12, arrest 9 in raid on alleged gang site (Reuters) – Mexican security forces detained nine alleged members of a criminal group and killed 12 others in an operation in a rural part of southwestern Mexico on Saturday, Mexico’s Security Ministry said. Security Minister Omar Harfuch confirmed three members of the Navy were injured in the Navy-led operation in Huitzontla, Michoacan 
• Suicide attacker in Somali capital kills 13 at a military recruitment center (AP News) – A suicide bomber in the Somali capital on Sunday targeted young recruits waiting to register at a military camp, killing at least 13 and wounding 21 others, witnesses said. Mogadishu has been repeatedly targeted by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which has waged an insurgency for over a decade.  

Infrastructure 

• Blackouts – and temperatures – on rise in Cuban capital Havana (Reuters) – Daily blackouts averaging four hours or more have become the new normal across Cuba’s capital of Havana, an unsettling sign of a still-unresolved energy crisis as the sultry Caribbean summer sets in. 

Environment 

• Heavy rains kill 6 in China’s south (Reuters) – Heavy weekend rains in China’s southern Guangdong and Guangxi provinces killed at least six people and disrupted trains and power supply, state media said, with alerts issued for severe flooding and geological disasters in parts of the country. 
• Vietnam – Landslide (ERCC) – As of 19 May, five fatalities and four injured persons due to a landslide event that occurred on 16 May in the morning at the construction site of a hydropower plant located in the Si Lo Lau commune, Phong Tho district, Lai Chau province. 
• Myanmar – Earthquake (ERCC) – The epicentre was located about 21 km south-southwest of Kyaukse town and 55 km south of Mandalay city in the Mandalay region. GDACS estimated that up to 7,100 people were exposed to very strong shaking, while 200,000 were exposed to strong shaking. 
• Argentina – Floods (ERCC) – As of 19 May, according to media, one person died in San Antonio de Areco in northern Buenos Aires province, three people are still missing across San Antonio de Areco and Quilmeño town of Bernal city, and more than 7,500 people have been evacuated from 30 municipalities, including 3,166 are displaced in evacuation centres 
• Switzerland – Snow avalanche (ERCC) – A snow avalanche occurred in the afternoon of 17 May, on the Eiger mountain, in the Lauterbrunnen municipality of the canton of Bern in central Switzerland, resulting in casualties. According to media, two people died, five people were injured, and another one has been affected. 

Health 

• US measles outbreak grows to 1,024 cases (CIDRAP) – Texas remains the country’s hot spot, with 718 cases. The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) continues to emphasize the importance of vaccination. 
• WHO spotlights deadly yellow fever outbreaks in the Americas (CIDRAP) – Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Peru have confirmed 212 recent cases and 85 deaths, for a death rate of 40%. Those numbers represent a more than tripling of cases of the mosquito-borne disease recorded for all of 2024, the agency said. 
• Polio outbreak declared in Papua New Guinea (Arab News) – A polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea, sparking concern about the disease’s spread in a country with low vaccination rates, health officials said. 

Migration 

• At least 20,000 flee insurgency-hit town in Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 20,000 people have fled Marte town following increasing attacks by Islamist militants in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, its governor has said, four years after residents returned to the town that was once controlled by insurgents. 

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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