Match the following items with the correct phrases.

_______1. Several dozen people having nausea and diarrhea several hours after a church picnic.
_______2. A disease that occurs only every once in a while in a particular geographic region.
_______3. A disease that is always present in a particular geographical region.


a. endemic disease
b. epidemic disease
c. pandemic disease
d. sporadic disease


1. b. epidemic disease
2. d. sporadic disease
3. a. endemic disease

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