Calculating the Morbidity Rates of Animals | Veterinary Medicine

In this article we will discuss about the calculation of morbidity rates of animal population. Morbidity rates describe the level of clinical disease in an animal popu­lation and may be crude, cause-specific, attribute-specific (i.e., host charac­teristic) or a combination of the latter two. Crude rates specify neither disease nor host attributes (e.g., the morbidity rate in feedlot cattle during July [...]