Endemic
Endemic means a disease occurs all the time, 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.
Review Date:
1/29/2007
Reviewd By:
D. Scott Smith, M.D., MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease & Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City, CA & Adjunct Assistant Professor, Stanford University. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.