i was reading that there was a primate strain of HIV that is 'endemic' to a group of gorillas. Does endemic mean it occurs naturally without killing them? How is something endemic different from an epidemic?
2006-11-08 17:55:36 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Endemic means peculiar to a people or region.Epidemic refers to affecting a whole community or a disease which attacks many people at the same period.Sickle cell anemia is endemic to African peoples.The bubonic plague in Europe wiped out many people in the Middle Ages.
2006-11-08 18:11:09 · answer #1 · answered by kalusz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Endemic means prevailing among a specific group, in other words, something that is found frequently within a given group. An Epidemic is wider spread. Endemic means it's more localized.
2006-11-08 18:04:54 · answer #2 · answered by SL_SF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Endemic-- Disease normally found in a place or population.
In an epidemic, the number of cases is much more than usual. If an epidemic occurs in several countries at the same time, it is a pandemic.
2006-11-09 03:40:31 · answer #3 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Endemic means within a community, it differs from epidemic in that epidemic refers to a situation which is widespread in nature.
2006-11-08 23:01:20 · answer #4 · answered by JOHN M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of
persons; as, an endemic disease.
[1913 Webster]
2006-11-08 18:04:44 · answer #5 · answered by zen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋