In honor of Rare Disease Day 2020, we asked our APBD community to #ShowYourStripes. Scroll down to see their hopes and dreams for APBD research. We also shared this impact graphic below to showcase our 15 years of progress.
In the rare disease world, the stripes imagery is often in reference to zebra stripes. There’s an old saying, used in teaching medical students to think about the most common or likely diagnosis first: “When you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras.” That very logic, however, is the cause of many rare disease patients going extraordinarily long times with a misdiagnosis.
