Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Challenges in comparing animal diseases across regions
By Parrish, H M et al.·Published in Canadian journal of comparative medicine : Revue canadienne de medecine comparee·1968·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Some missing measurements in comparative medicine.
Plain-English summary
Currently, it's challenging to compare animal diseases across different regions because there are some important gaps in information. For example, there isn't a widely accepted way to classify animal diseases, and we often don't have regular data on animal births, illnesses, and deaths. Additionally, we lack standard values for many animal species and effective ways to define animal populations over time. While similar issues have been addressed in human medicine, it's crucial to begin developing research methods for animal diseases as soon as possible.
Abstract
At the present time it is difficult to make comparisons of animal diseases in various geographic areas. Some missing measurements which limit these comparisons are: the lack of an internationally accepted system to classify diseases; the lack of routinely collected information about animal births, diseases, and deaths; the lack of normal or standard values for many species; and the lack of methods to define animal populations at various points in time. Most of these problems have been faced and solved for human diseases. Work should be started immediately to develop similar research methods for animal diseases.
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