Health Care Encyclopedia
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EndemicDefinition:
Information: 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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| Review Date: 1/26/2005
Reviewed By: Daniel Levy, M.D., Ph.D., Infectious Diseases, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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