Editing 2000s (section)

=== Natural disasters ===
{{See also|Category:2000 natural disasters|Countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake|Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake|Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina}}
[[File:2004-tsunami.jpg|thumb|[[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]]. The [[tsunami]] caused by the December 26, 2004, earthquake strikes [[Ao Nang]], Thailand.]]
The 2000s experienced some of the worst and most destructive [[natural disasters]] in history.

==== Earthquakes (including tsunamis) ====
* On January 13, 2001, a [[January 2001 El Salvador earthquake|7.6-magnitude earthquake]] strikes El Salvador, killing 944 people and injuring 5,565 people.
* On January 26, 2001, an [[2001 Gujarat earthquake|earthquake]] hits [[Gujarat]], India, killing more than 12,000.
* On February 28, 2001, the [[2001 Nisqually earthquake|Nisqually earthquake]] hits the Seattle metro area. It caused major damage to the [[Alaskan Way Viaduct|old highway]] standing in the urban center of Seattle.
* On February 13, 2001, a [[February 2001 El Salvador earthquake|6.6-magnitude earthquake]] hits [[El Salvador]], killing at least 400.
* On May 21, 2003, an earthquake in the [[Boumerdès]] region of northern [[Algeria]] kills 2,200.
* On December 26, 2003, the massive [[2003 Bam earthquake]] devastates southeastern [[Iran]]; over 40,000 people are reported killed in the city of [[Bam, Iran|Bam]].
* On December 26, 2004, one of the worst [[natural disaster]]s in recorded history hits southeast Asia, when [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|the largest earthquake in 40 years]] hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the [[Indonesia]]n island of [[Sumatra]], generates enormous [[tsunami]] waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including [[Thailand]], India, [[Sri Lanka]], the [[Maldives]], Malaysia, [[Myanmar]], Bangladesh, and [[Indonesia]]. The official death toll from the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|Boxing Day tsunami]] in the affected countries with over 230,000 people dead.
* On October 8, 2005, the [[2005 Kashmir earthquake]] killed over 80,000 people.
* On May 12, 2008, over 69,000 are killed in central south-west China by the [[2008 Sichuan earthquake|Wenchuan quake]], an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the [[moment magnitude scale]]. The epicenter was {{convert|90|km|mi|sp=us}} west-northwest of the provincial capital [[Chengdu]], Sichuan province.

==== Tropical cyclones, other weather, and bushfires ====

[[File:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded edit2.jpg|thumb|upright|2005 flooding in [[New Orleans]], caused by [[Hurricane Katrina]].]]
* July 7–11, 2005 – [[Hurricane Dennis]] caused damage in the Caribbean and southeastern United States. Dennis killed a total of 88 people and caused $3.71 billion in damages.
* August 28–29, 2005 – [[Hurricane Katrina]] made landfall in [[Louisiana]] and [[Mississippi]], devastating the city of [[New Orleans]] and nearby coastal areas. Katrina was recognized as the costliest natural disaster in the United States at the time, after causing a record $108&nbsp;billion in damages (a record later surpassed by [[Hurricane Harvey]] in [[2017 Atlantic hurricane season|2017]]). Katrina caused over 1,200 deaths.
* September 25, 2006 –  [[Typhoon Xangsane]] (known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Milenyo) struck the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, killing over 300 and caused $747 million in damage.
* November 30, 2006 – [[Typhoon Durian]] (known in the Philippines as Typhoon Reming) affected the Philippines' [[Bicol Region]], and together with a concurrent eruption of [[Mayon Volcano]], caused mudflows and killed more than 1,200 people.
* August 30, 2007 – Group of [[Croatia]]n firefighters who were flown in on the island [[Kornat]] as part of the [[2007 Croatian coast fires|2007 coast fires]] firefighting efforts perished. Twelve out of thirteen men who found themselves surrounded by fire were killed in the event which was the biggest loss of lives in the history of Croatian firefighting.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}
* May 3, 2008 – [[Cyclone Nargis]] had an extreme impact in [[Myanmar]], causing nearly 140,000 deaths and $10 billion in damages.
* June 21, 2008 – [[Typhoon Fengshen (2008)|Typhoon Fengshen]] (called Typhoon Frank in the Philippines) struck the central [[Philippines]], causing over 1,400 deaths and $480 million in damage. The cyclone also caused the  sinking of the ferry [[MV Princess of the Stars]], killing more than 800 on Board.
* February 7 – March 14, 2009 – The [[Black Saturday bushfires]], the deadliest [[Bushfires in Australia|bushfires]] in Australian history, took place across the Australian state of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] during extreme bushfire-weather conditions, killing 173 people, injuring more than 500, and leaving around 7,500 homeless. The fires came after [[Melbourne]] recorded the [[2009 southeastern Australia heat wave|highest-ever temperature]] ({{convert|46.4|°C|°F|abbr=on|disp=or}}) of any capital city in Australia. The majority of the fires were caused by either fallen or clashing power lines, or [[arson]].
* September-October 2009 – [[Typhoon Ketsana]] (known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy) caused flooding in [[Luzon]], [[Philippines]], mostly in [[Metro Manila]], killing nearly 700 people in total. Flood levels reached a record of 20 ft (6.1 m) in rural areas. Days after Ketsana left the Philippines, [[Typhoon Parma]] (known as Typhoon Pepeng in the Philippines) made landfall three times, causing widespread flooding in northern Luzon; 500 were killed and damage totaled $560 million.
* Winter of 2009–2010 – The winter of 2009–2010 saw abnormally cold temperatures in [[Winter of 2009–10 in Europe|Europe]], Asia, and [[2009–10 North American winter|America]]. A total of 21 people were reported to have died as a result of the cold in the [[Winter of 2009–10 in Great Britain and Ireland|British Isles]]. On December 26, 2009, [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia, was covered by 35 cm of snow, the largest December snowfall recorded in the city since 1881.

==== Epidemics ====

[[Antimicrobial resistance|Antibiotic resistance]] is a serious and growing phenomenon in contemporary medicine and has emerged as one of the eminent public health concerns of the 21st century, particularly as it pertains to pathogenic organisms (the term is not especially relevant to organisms which don't cause disease in humans).

The outbreak of [[foot-and-mouth disease]] in the [[United Kingdom]] in 2001 caused a crisis in British agriculture and tourism. This [[epizootic]] saw 2,000 cases of the disease in farms across most of the British countryside. Over 6 million sheep and cattle were killed.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-02-19 |title=Foot-and-mouth outbreak's parallels with Covid pandemic |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-55981681 |access-date=2024-05-02 |language=en-GB |archive-date=May 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240502154849/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-55981681 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Between November 2002 and July 2003, an [[2002–2004 SARS outbreak|outbreak]] of [[severe acute respiratory syndrome]] (SARS) occurred in Hong Kong, with 8,273 cases and 775 deaths worldwide (9.6% fatality) according to the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO). Within weeks, SARS spread from Hong Kong to infect individuals in 37 countries in early 2003.

[[Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus|Methicillin-resistant ''Staphylococcus aureus'']]: the [[Office for National Statistics]] reported 1,629 [[Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus|MRSA]]-related deaths in [[England and Wales]] during 2005, indicating a MRSA-related mortality rate half the rate of that in the United States for 2005, even though the figures from the British source were explained to be high because of "improved levels of reporting, possibly brought about by the continued high public profile of the disease" during the time of the [[2005 United Kingdom General Election]]. MRSA is thought to have caused 1,652 deaths in 2006 in UK up from 51 in 1993.

[[File:Swine Flu Masked Train Passengers in Mexico City.jpg|thumb|right|People in Mexico City wear masks on a train due to the [[2009 H1N1 flu outbreak|swine flu outbreak]], April 2009]]
The 2009 [[H1N1]] (swine flu) [[2009 flu pandemic|flu pandemic]] was also considered a natural disaster. On October 25, 2009, U.S. President [[Barack Obama]] officially declared H1N1 a [[national emergency]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Obama declares swine flu a national emergency |url=http://heraldextra.com/news/national/article_a4de47bf-1dd4-52ea-9f2d-db535ba581b4.html |newspaper=The Daily Herald |year=2009 |access-date=October 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029080742/http://www.heraldextra.com/news/national/article_a4de47bf-1dd4-52ea-9f2d-db535ba581b4.html |archive-date=October 29, 2009}}</ref> Despite President Obama's concern, a [[Fairleigh Dickinson University]] PublicMind poll found in October 2009 that an overwhelming majority of New Jerseyans (74%) were not very worried or not at all worried about contracting the H1N1 flu virus.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://publicmind.fdu.edu/h1n1/release.pdf |title=New Jersewans not worried about H1N1 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University |date=October 8, 2009 |access-date=February 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312170728/http://publicmind.fdu.edu/h1n1/release.pdf |archive-date=March 12, 2012}}</ref>

A study conducted in coordination with the University of Michigan Health Service is scheduled for publication in the December 2009 ''American Journal of [[Roentgenology]]'' warning that H1N1 flu can cause [[pulmonary embolism]], surmised as a leading cause of death in this current pandemic. The study authors suggest physician evaluation via contrast enhanced CT scans for the presence of pulmonary emboli when caring for patients diagnosed with respiratory complications from a "severe" case of the H1N1 flu.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mollura |first1=Daniel J. |last2=Asnis |first2=Deborah S. |last3=Crupi |first3=Robert S. |last4=Conetta |first4=Rick |last5=Feigin |first5=David S. |last6=Bray |first6=Mike |last7=Taubenberger |first7=Jeffery K. |last8=Bluemke |first8=David A. |title=Imaging Findings in a Fatal Case of Pandemic Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) |journal=American Journal of Roentgenology |date=December 2009 |volume=193 |issue=6 |pages=1500–1503 |doi=10.2214/AJR.09.3365 |pmid=19933640 |pmc=2788497}}</ref>

As of May 30, 2010, as stated by the World Health Organization, more than 214 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including over 18,138 deaths.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_06_04/en/index.html |title=Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 – update 103 |publisher=Who.int |access-date=October 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119161116/http://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_06_04/en/index.html |archive-date=November 19, 2010}}</ref>