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An ongoing or lingering Pandemic may also amount to a humanitarian crisis, especially where there are increasing levels of Virulence , or rates of Infection as in the case of AIDS or Bird Flu . Major health-related problems such as Cancer , Global Warming typically require an accentuated or punctuated mass-event to justify a label of "crisis" or "disaster."

Recent humanitarian crises include the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake , the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake , and the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 .


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