Translations:Advanced Field Epi:Manual 1 - Disease Investigation/312/en

Controls should be eligible to get the disease and to be selected as cases if they had developed the disease. This means that if the disease is causing abortion in pregnant cattle, then male cattle would not be selected as controls. Any animal that may have had the disease earlier and recovered and considered immune would not be considered for selection as a control because they may not be expected to get the disease again.