Idem example sentences

Some people think that comets are messengers of disasters, such as wars, epidemics and floods.A Famine is characterised by wide spread deaths due to starvation and epidemics caused by forced use of contaminated water or decaying food and loss of body resistance due to weakening from starvation.However, wars and epidemics are human-made events, although their effects can also be as severe as those of natural disasters.It must be disposed of properly otherwise epidemics could break out.One finds examples of other disasters also, such as wars, industrial accidents such as the leaking of poisonous or radioactive elements in industrial plants, or epidemics (e.g., the plague that affected some parts of our country in 1994).The poor management causes health problems leading to epidemics due to contamination of ground water.