endemic

And if Beijing cleans up its chemical industry, the business may simply move to India, where corruption can be even more endemic, or perhaps another country.

Even the language they use to denounce them, French, is a foreign tongue and not one endemic to Dahomey.

“I’ll be more concerned if it travels by aerosol to a confinement building,” he said, adding that a pig serving as mixing vessel is “not as likely in backyard herds — a bigger risk in commercial herds where flu is more endemic.”

It is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, a soil-dwelling bacteria strain endemic in tropical and sub-tropical regions.

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the last remaining countries where it is still endemic.