What is Endemic (epidemiology)?
In [[epidemiology]], an [[infection]] is said to be '''endemic''' in a [[population]] when that infection is not spread quickly or not a lot of people are infected for it to become a [[pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Third Edition An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics|url=https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section11.html |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|access-date=April 19, 2018}}</ref> For example, [[chickenpox]] is endemic (steady state) in the United Kingdom, but [[malaria]] is not. ==References== {{reflist}} {{med-stub}} [[Category:Epidemiology]]