Power cuts are endemic, with some rural areas receiving only four hours of electricity a day.
Mike Vigil, a former Drug Enforcement Administration chief of international operations in Mexico City, told me, "The municipal police were endemic with corruption".
Even though prison-building is one of the country's great growth industries, overcrowding is endemic, with federal prisons operating at 131% of capacity.
Bribes were endemic, with some officials demanding sums in the thousands of dollars for visa approvals and extensions, or obtaining exemptions from the AIDS tests required for any reporter remaining in Baghdad for more than 10 days.
Corruption within the party is now considered endemic, with allegations of "vote buying" inside the party being confirmed by Zuma himself in his political report, while many ANC senior leaders are accused of being on the take.
The disease, which usually causes no obvious or only mild symptoms, does not spread from person to person, but governments in many countries are extremely worried about it becoming endemic, with serious consequences for public health.
A surprising number of bullying cases involve health care settings, where the problem is said to be endemic, with senior hospital workers, particularly doctors and supervisors, harassing nurses and technicians.
Dutton's recent sexism towards a journalist has drawn attention to his political record as overseer of a detention system endemic with sexual abuse and in an Australian community with a growing feminist consciousness it's finally – finally – doing him damage.
But the use of anti-gay language in school is almost endemic with 99 per cent of lesbian, gay and bisexual young people hearing phrases such as 'that's so gay' or 'you're so gay'.
These problems have been endemic with mercenaries for 2,500 years and they are partly why states have retained a monopoly on military force.Historically, mercenaries have provided poor value for money.
Kensington is capitalizing on the endemic with the introduction of the SlimBlade line of hardware targeted towards those on the go.
