On 3/24/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
"Endemic to X" means "native to only X"...
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And here I always figured that endemic meant a disease that affected a stable number of people in a given group, like "The common cold is endemic to the United Kingdom". I guess that's not all :)
Tell me, if the number of birds are increasing are they "epidemic to Chicago"?
--Oskar