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endemic

an endemic disease or plant
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endemic

[en′dem·ik]
(medicine)
Peculiar to a certain region, specifically referring to a disease which occurs more or less constantly in any locality.
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[2] TB is still progressing endemically in developing countries despite many prevention programs but rare in developed countries.
The authors show that the socioeconomic origins of violence have changed, in the sense that if prior to 2008, violence can be attributed to inter-group conflict between ethnically and religiously distinct groups, from 2008 on, "the increasing global food prices triggered a new wave of violence that spread to the endemically poor southern region with demands for government change and economic concessions" (p.
MP infections can occur endemically throughout the year or in epidemics.
APHA member Ron Wohrle, DVM, a public health veterinarian at the Washington State Department of Health, told session attendees that the first endemically reported cases of valley fever in Washington occurred in 2010-2011.
Starting in 2008, a peak of global food prices coincided with a new wave of violence that spread to the endemically poor southern region with demands for government change and economic concessions.
HCV is prevalent and endemically present worldwide and this virus internationally affects at least 1.7 billion globe population (Choo et al., 1991).
It is concluded that our observations confirmed the previous findings on hepatotoxicity induced by flu-oride; our results also have shown that vitamin E is effective in preventing changes in histological struc-ture and biochemical indices of liver in mice, since vit-amin E is protective against hepatotoxins, cheap and easily available, it can be used in endemically affected areas.