And as if that wasn’t enough confusion, the same word has an entirely different meaning when discussing diseases. If we say, “Yellow fever is endemic in Angola,” we do not mean that it is found there and only there. What we mean is that it exists there at a relatively constant incidence, as opposed to epidemic, meaning that a disease suddenly increases in incidence.
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