Epizootology of non-communicable diseases

This paper discusses a concept of animal population health that encompasses all massive diseases regardless of their diverse causes based on the subject and methodological unity of morbidity as an independent pathological phenomenon. The potential for subject and methodological improvements in epizootology as a science, practice, and education as well as research and analytical activities in this field is postulated. The logical path forward should be «orthodox epizootology of infectious diseases based on the epizootic chain → epizootology of all infectious morbidity including factor-endogenous pathology → epizootology of morbidity as mass pathological phenomena regardless of causality → epizootology as a general veterinary diagnostic discipline» i.e., from the infectious to the post-infectious era, with a focus on the mass nature of socioeconomically significant animal pathological phenomena.