Endemic (epidemiology)

In epidemiology, an infection is said to be endemic in a population when that infection is not spread quickly or not a lot of people are infected for it to become a pandemic.[1] For example, chickenpox is endemic (steady state) in the United Kingdom, but malaria is not.

References
  1. "Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Third Edition An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
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