you share your thoughts about what's the contribution of the veterinary diagnostic laboratories in programs for disease control and elimination? What's the role that the labs play in there?

Well, I think that the state diagnostic lab system that we have here is...

You know, the diagnostic lab is that arm of veterinary medicine that's concerned with diagnosis.

And as such, it's a collection of highly trained specialists and individuals who are all together at one unit that can talk to each other.

You know, I speak with Dr. Wong frequently.

I'm talking with the microbiologists.

I'm talking with all kinds of people.

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