“…Therefore, to reduce the number of inconclusive diagnoses resulting from failures in forwarding materials to the VDLs, it is necessary to implement measures to minimize these problems. The use of social media for teaching and improving the speed of diagnoses in Veterinary Medicine (Bernardo et al 2013, Tenhaven et al 2013, Mekaru & Brownstein 2014, Haustein et al 2015, Kedrowicz et al 2016, Englar 2017, Ober 2019, Saadeh et al 2021, Sellers et al 2021, Trittmacher et al 2021, Woodard et al 2021) and telemedicine (Farahani & Pantanowitz 2015, Bertram & Klopfleisch 2017 grows exponentially. The use of smartphones and media during visits to rural properties and in the guidance to veterinarians on the procedures necessary for sending samples to the VDLs, respectively, showed the potential to stimulate improvements in animal health (Karimuribo et al 2016, Miltenburg et al 2021.…”