Mr. Bloomberg is also credited with doing a good job handling the city's latest crisis: the outbreak of H1N1, or swine flu.
But after a series of setbacks -- the mad cow disease crisis; an outbreak of swine fever last year; a strong pound that has hurt exports; and a spate of flooding this winter that left many farmers unable to plant their crops on time -- this latest crisis seems like one too many.
But far from being just another Syrian crisis, the outbreak of polio is considered as a regional emergency in the Middle East.
A triple crisis Cholera outbreak is recurrent in the Sahel region.This year, however, its impact has worsened due to the enormous displacement of people fleeing the conflict in northern Mali.
Waves of refugees have recently crossed over the border from Burundi into Rwanda, fleeing the ongoing political crisis and outbreaks of violence in Burundi.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health warns that damage done to water and sewage systems during the long electrical outage has resulted in a worsening epidemiological crisis, including outbreaks of typhoid.
Southeast Asians experienced the 1997 and 2006 haze crises and outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and they understand the use of N-95 masks when there is a serious health threat.
As the country's largest cooperative bank, it provides refinancing to agriculture, which has suffered from crises including outbreaks of mad cow disease and of foot-and-mouth disease, the worst of it in Britain and Ireland.
The report also highlights the need for emergency services to provide better maternal health care during crises, from outbreaks such as that of the Zika virus to mass migration, whether political or environmental.
We picked up the things that piqued our curiosity: the opioid crisis, the H.I.V. outbreak, biker gangs, policing and police shootings".
