Sentences with phrase «experience major epidemics»

Panama was one of the first countries to experience major epidemics.

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It has experienced 27 major floods over the past 290 years (Kates et al. 2006), as well as nineteenth - century invasions, yellow fever epidemics, and twentieth - century drinking water pollution, and a declining population and economy (Colten 2005).

If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail - spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.»