To the Editor: The recent conference report by Knight and Taruscio highlights the need for a coordinated effort to fill knowledge gaps and improve service provision for Australians with rare diseases.1 Although, by definition, individual rare diseases occur infrequently, there are about 6000 rare diseases affecting 6%–10% of the population.2,3 This equates to 1.2 million Australians, 30 million people in Europe and 25 million in the United States. By comparison, diabetes affects 1.4 million Australians.4
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