Exploring Cascading Disaster Risk During Complex Emergencies: Chemical Industry Disaster Risk Assessment in the Aftermath of the Kakhovka Dam Bombing in Ukraine.

Objective: This risk assessment aims to investigate the analysis of cascading disaster risks from the perspective of the chemical industry and public health subsequent to the Kakhovka dam bombing in Ukraine.

Method: The study utilized a modified observational cross-sectional risk assessment method to assess disaster risk. The method involved identifying the location of chemical factories, determining flooded or at-risk factories, analyzing the type and frequency of chemical hazards, assessing population exposure, and plotting a disaster risk metric.

The first 2 months of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Yemen: Analysis of the surveillance data.

Introduction: Yemen was one of the last countries in the world to declare the first case of the pandemic, on 10 April 2020. Fear and concerns of catastrophic outcomes of the epidemic in Yemen were immediately raised, as the country is facing a complex humanitarian crisis. The purpose of this report is to describe the epidemiological situation in Yemen during the first 2 months of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic.

Performance of the standardised MedDRA® queries for case retrieval in the French spontaneous reporting database.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of Standardised MedDRA® Queries (SMQs) in adverse drug reaction (ADR) identification.

Methods: ADR cases included in the last complete year of the French Pharmacovigilance database for research were used to test four SMQs (narrow and broad): agranulocytosis, demyelination, osteonecrosis and psychosis. Reference cases were identified by free-text search and validated by two authors.