Endemic

ENDEMIC - Restricted to a particular locality or region (e.g. endemic disease).
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Endemic means a disease occurs continuously and with predictable regularity in a specific area or population. For example, chicken pox occurs all the time at a certain frequency among American school children.
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Typhus, endemic: See Typhus, murine.
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Endemic goiters occur within groups of people living in geographical areas with iodine-depleted soil, usually regions away from the sea coast. People in these communities might not get enough iodine in their diet.
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ENDEMIC: Pertaining to diseases associated with particular locales or population groups.
ENDOGENOUS: Relating to or produced by the body.
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It is endemic in domestic animals. Sheep, goats, and cattle are the primary reservoirs for transference to humans. The disease is spread to humans by bites from an infected tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and from drinking raw milk.
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Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a severe VHF that's often fatal, is endemic in many countries in Africa, Europe and Asia. It's spread by ticks, some of which transmit the virus to their offspring via eggs.
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A disease that tends to be restricted to a particular region (endemic disease) can become epidemic if nonimmune persons are present in large numbers (as in time of war or during pilgrimages), if the infectious agent is more virulent than usual, ...
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In the 1950s, KS was recognized as a relatively common neoplasm endemic in native populations in equatorial Africa and comprised approximately 9% of all cancers seen in Ugandan males.
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Vaccination campaigns have succeeded in reducing the number of countries where polio is endemic (where it occurs locally). In 1988, more than 120 countries contained endemic poliovirus.
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Such areas are said to be endemic for hepatitis B. When infants or young children living in an endemic area are infected, their chance of becoming a chronic hepatitis B carrier is at least 90%.
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The disease is commonly found (endemic) in the tropical and subtropical areas of the world (such as Southeast India, Guyana, and New Guinea), but it occurs on occasion in the United States (typically in the Southeast).
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When travelling in areas of endemic rabies, it's essential not to touch any animals, however tame they may appear, and wild animals should be avoided.
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It is endemic (prevalent) throughout the wooded coastal regions of the Northeast, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific Northwest. In the Northeast and Great Lakes regions, the disease is more prevalent from May to August.
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It often seems that as soon as you've finished feeding your baby, everything you worked so hard to get down comes right back up -all over your shirt. Spitting up is as endemic to newborns as the soft spot on the top of their heads.
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The emotional dilemma that stems from enjoying sex at the cost of feeling "dirty" is a common one endemic to our culture.
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PinwormEnterobius vermicularis, a nematode worm of the family Oxyuridae that causes parasitic infestation of the intestines and cecum. Pinworm is endemic in both temperate and tropical regions and common especially in school age children.
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It is most frequently seen in desert regions, such as the southwestern part of the United States as well as northern Mexico. It is also call San Joaquin Valley fever or Valley fever because it is widespread (endemic) to that area.
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