Tuberculosis caused the most widespread public concern in the 19th and early 20th centuries as an endemic disease of the urban poor.
The most recent diphtheria epidemic was in 1947, and no case of endemic disease has occurred since 1961.
This mental confusion of the people then took on a life of its own, like an endemic disease.
Health conditions were poor at the time, with high rates of infant mortality and numerous endemic diseases.
God knew what kind of rampant endemic diseases there were out there in the bush.
Of 35 missionaries, by 1900 only six had survived the endemic disease.
In addition, some of the surviving slaves likely carried these endemic diseases.
It has since been identified as an endemic disease in domestic cat populations worldwide.
This period coincided with interventions for the control of endemic tropical diseases.
"But the heat and the endemic disease are things I should find very trying," she said to counter it.