adj 1  :  exhibiting a high and continued incidence - used chiefly of human diseases < malaria>   2  :  marked by hyperendemic disease - used of geographic areas <a focus of plague>  hy*per*en*de*mic*i*ty n pl  -ties  
 
   
 
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