Tomorrow’s Research 
At the National Animal Disease Laboratory, highly trained 
research workers are being challenged to contribute funda- 
mental and applied knowledge in many areas—to find more 
basic information about the agents that cause disease, to dis- 
cover more about natural immunity and susceptibility of 
animals, to learn how specific diseases are produced within 
the animal’s body, and to apply current knowledge to the 
Improvement of immunization, prevention, treatment, and 
eradication of animal diseases. 
As these problems are solved, others will be studied. The 
laboratory’s flexible design permits initiation of research on 
a variety of subjects involving new techniques and instru- 
mentation when desirable. And there is no shortage of 
subjects needing investigation—at least 100 infectious dis- 
eases of cattle, swine, poultry, and other livestock are 
prevalent in the United States. 
The research worker has entered a new era in the science 
of living things. He is applying modern techniques to the 
study of long-established diseases, and is building up research 
data for use against disease problems that are certain to 
arise in the future. His work will open new scientific 
horizons, just as the early research on Texas fever did. 
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