

Human: What does endemic mean?

Assistant: It means something that’s present everywhere, or affects everything. So an “endemic parasite” is a parasite that affects everything, while an “endemic disease” is a disease that affects everything. There are also “endemic diseases” that only affect particular people, like a local parasite that just doesn’t affect most people.


Human: What does endemic mean?

Assistant: It can mean a disease or virus that exists naturally in a specific geographic area, in which it’s the most common type of illness.  If it’s endemic in a certain population or region, that usually means that there’s enough constant contact between infected and healthy people that the disease will constantly and easily be passed from one person to another, so that it tends to stay prevalent there even without the initial presence of any “carrier” or infected individual.
What does endemic mean?
It means something that’s present everywhere, or affects everything. So an “endemic parasite” is a parasite that affects everything, while an “endemic disease” is a disease that affects everything. There are also “endemic diseases” that only affect particular people, like a local parasite that just doesn’t affect most people.
It can mean a disease or virus that exists naturally in a specific geographic area, in which it’s the most common type of illness.  If it’s endemic in a certain population or region, that usually means that there’s enough constant contact between infected and healthy people that the disease will constantly and easily be passed from one person to another, so that it tends to stay prevalent there even without the initial presence of any “carrier” or infected individual.