/diagnosis/countries

Returns list of countries that can be used to chooce the country in which the patient acquired the disease. Generally the list of country names corresponds to accepted geographical and political designations. Certain territories, protectorates, etc are listed separately when their infectious disease status differs significantly from that of the ‘mother’ country. Thus Puerto Rico and Guam are processed as autonomous epidemiological entities by GIDEON. In contrast, newer countries or semi-autonomous regions (ie, Kosovo) will continue to appear in the app as part of the mother-nation (ie, Serbia). The default < Worldwide > option is useful when generating a comprehensive list of all diseases associated with specific clinical findings. The returned countries includes the "Bioterrorism Simulator" - designed for diagnosis and informatics relevant to the military and paramilitary use of human Infectious Disease agents. When "Bioterrorism Simulator" is selected as the "country", the resulting differential diagnosis list includes only diseases considered as potential agents of bioterrorism. Note that this list is not Bayesian; ie, all relevant diseases are assigned an equal ‘incidence’ when calculating probability.