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endemic

Of a disease, more or less prevalent in a given region or country all the time. It refers most often to tropical diseases, such as malaria, which are hard to eradicate.
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, in spite of the tergiversations which were endemic, and, it might be said, inevitable, at that period.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
And something did, for the next summer was made memorable by the prevalence of a mysterious disease--epidemic, endemic, or the Lord knows what, though the physicians didn't--which carried away a full half of the population.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Sclater, informs me that this is the case with the Strix punctatissima and Pyrocephalus nanus; and probably with the Otus Galapagoensis and Zenaida Galapagoensis: so that the number of endemic birds is reduced to twenty-three, or probably to twenty-one.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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