explain your answer and give sWhat's the difference between an endemic disease and an epidemic disease?

Question

And can a disease be classified as both
Please explain your answer and give some examples.

Answer 1

endemic means it is found in a certain area. For example, malaria is endemic to subsaharan africa. Epidemic is basically a large outbreak of a disease. It can be both if it is normally found it that area but suddenly is infecting at a much higher rate.

Answer 2

Endemic means the normal incidence of the disease within a population. You could say that HPV is an endemic disease in the US (something that a certain percentage of Americans have without the percentage varying dramatically from year to year). Similarly, Lyme disease is endemic to the Northeastern United States, you expect a certain amount of Lyme cases in that region. An epidemic means a spike in incidence of a disease where it is usually endemic. So, if all of a sudden we had 200% more cases of Lyme disease this year than last year we could say it's an epidemic. Or, how people refer to the "obesity epidemic", all of a sudden more people are obese than ever before. If all of a sudden we had a case or more of a disease that is not usually found in an area (like the Ebola virus in the United States) it would be called an outbreak.

A disease that is endemic can rise in incidence to become an epidemic. A disease that is endemic to one region can be introduced to a new area to cause an outbreak.

I hope that helps.

Answer 3

An endemic disease is one that is around all the time, usually putting a burden on the community but not great harm because of resistance. Malaria, in the old days yellow fever, sleeping sickness are endemic to certain areas.
An epidemic disease is one that is raging through the community, usually doing great harm including deaths with low resistance. SARS, the plague, influenza, AIDS are epidemic at certain times and certain places.
A disease can be both, especially if it mutates, being endemic in an area and spreading as an epidemic.

Answer 4

Epidemic: A disease or condition that impacts a enormous quantity of men and women at the same time. That spreads quickly by way of a phase of a population, corresponding to every person within the identical geograpic field, age workforce or gender. Endemic: The anticipated or "usual" incidence of ailment or a situation that is transmitted on the average expected expense. An indigenous (native) disorder brought about via stipulations that are continuously present within a community. Pandemic: A ailment or condition occurring in the course of the populace of a country, a persons or the world. From most extensive to least: Pandemic, epidemic, endemic.

Answer 5

en·dem·ic /ɛnˈdɛmɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[en-dem-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective Also, en·dem·i·cal. 1. natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous: endemic folkways; countries where high unemployment is endemic.
2. belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place: a fever endemic to the tropics.
ep·i·dem·ic /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ep-i-dem-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. Also, ep·i·dem·i·cal. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
2. extremely prevalent; widespread.
–noun 3. a temporary prevalence of a disease.
4. a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something: an epidemic of riots.


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[Origin: 1595–1605; obs. epidem(y) (< LL epidémia < Gk epidémía staying in one place, among the people, equiv. to epi- epi- + dêm(os) people of a district + -ia -y3) + -ic]

—Related forms
ep·i·dem·i·cal·ly, adverb
ep·i·de·mic·i·ty /ˌɛpɪdəˈmɪsɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ep-i-duh-mis-i-tee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, noun
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