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The word endemic is from Neo-Latin endēmicus, from Greek ἔνδημος, éndēmos, "native". Endēmos is formed of en meaning "in", and dēmos meaning "the people". [5] The word entered the English language as a loan word from French endémique, and originally seems to have been used in the sense of diseases that occur at a constant amount in a country, as opposed to epidemic diseases ...
An endemic disease always has a steady, predictable number of people getting sick, but that number can be high (hyperendemic) or low (hypoendemic), and the disease can be severe or mild. [3] [4] Also, a disease that is usually endemic can become epidemic. [3] For example, chickenpox is endemic in the United Kingdom, but malaria is not.
In many places of Asia and Africa, hepatitis B has become endemic. [24] In addition, a person is sometimes infected with both hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV, and this population (about 2.7 million) accounts for about 1% of the total HBV infections. [23]
Located about 2,300 miles (3,680 km) from the nearest continental shore, the Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated group of islands on the planet. The plant and animal life of the Hawaiian archipelago is the result of early, very infrequent colonizations of arriving species and the slow evolution of those species—in isolation from the rest of the world's flora and fauna—over a period of ...
Murine typhus (Endemic typhus) Early diagnosis continued to be based on clinical suspicion. The most effective antibiotics include tetracycline and chloramphenicol. No Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Mycoplasma pneumonia: Chest X-Ray, Chest CT, blood test Erythromycin, doxycycline: No Mycoplasma genitalium: Mycoplasma genitalium infection
COVID-19 will never go away, but the pandemic will be over when the disease becomes 'endemic.' Here's what that means.
An Endemic Bird Area (EBA), a term devised by BirdLife International, is a geographical (rather than political) region of the world that contains two or more restricted-range (of no more than 50,000 km 2) species, while a "secondary area" contains one restricted-range species.
Short-range endemic (SRE) invertebrates are animals that display restricted geographic distributions, nominally less than 10,000 km 2, that may also be disjunct and highly localised. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The most appropriate analogy is that of an island, where the movement of fauna is restricted by the surrounding marine waters, therefore ...