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The robust equal employment protections of the federal government have long made civil service jobs a path up to the middle class for populations that otherwise face endemic discrimination.

Last month, family safety campaigner Janis James, who is chief executive of Good Egg Safety, which funded the University of West London's research, described the mental health impact of alienating behaviours as "endemic".

In some West African countries, where the disease is endemic, people usually become infected through exposure to food, or household items contaminated with urine or faeces of rats.

It can cause serious illness and even death, and you don’t really want something that we’ve never seen here to become endemic.

Dengue is endemic in tropical countries, and outbreaks often occur in urban areas with poor sanitation which allows virus-carrying mosquitoes to multiply.