When Is National Rare Disease Day?

The internet history of Rare Disease Day

29th of February is National Rare Disease Day

  First detected on the 22nd of January 2016

  652 tweets


Is It Rare Disease Day Today?

It's Rare Disease day on the 29th of February.

The most recent detection of references to Rare Disease Day was 2 years, 3 months ago.

There were many celebrations relating to national holdiays written about on social media that our algorithms picked up on the 29th of February. In total we detected 73 total unique days being shared such as Cupcake Day which had 479 people talking about it, or Safeguarding Day having 392 tweets.


How Is The Date For Rare Disease Day Calculated?

The day shown for 'National Rare Disease Day' is based off how much chitter-chatter and buzz there was on Feb. 29, 2016 across social media making references to 'Rare Disease Day'. Our algorithms examine all of the references to National Days across social media and updates whatnationaldayisit.com hourly, with our homepage displaying the current national day, including others such as: Science, Pancake or Frog Legs Day. This crowdsourcing of data method to assess the National Rare Disease Day date is used as opposed to being connected with any Government sacntioned lists :D Hurrah for democracy by concensus!


I'd Like To Promote National Rare Disease Day

We've put together the following resources full of nifty tips on how to increase the reach of Rare Disease Day. The resources include: graphs, badges, and resources on what steps to take to boost Rare Disease Day's visibility.

Can I Register Rare Disease Day?

We don't have an international authority or governmental remit to declare any officially celebrated "national Rare Disease day". We only aim to programatically reflect what 'National Day' it is based of what The Internet Says It Is. We believe this is much more fun as it reflects the nature of how the most amusing / interesting national days are often created organically and grow based off popular social trends and sharing, as such we don't add new days to our database unless they are organically observed on social media.



Is it National Rare Disease Day Everywhere?

Yes? No.. Sort of | Maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What's really intersting is how whilst some National Days like National Daughters Day are seemingly celebrated internationally irrespective of geography, some very popular days (That often become the No. 1 National Day on our homepage) are in fact locally very specific and are offical holidays celebrated on a Country's national calendar. Take National Rambutan Day for instance, Rambutan is a popular Souteast Asian fruit and not seen so much in the UK, Europe or the USA. Some regionally specific trends subsequently become immensely popular internationally and worldwide, partly fuelled by widely shared 'National Days', National Pabebe Wave Day being one such example.


We're now tracking the sentiment around every mention of Rare Disease day to show how people feel about Rare Disease. See if people like Rare Disease here.
We're detecting how Rare Disease affects other things more widely than just being a celebrated day. See how Rare Disease affects company share prices.


Hang On, It Was National Rare Disease Day Already This Year..!?

Yes, this is strangely enough entirely possible. The date shown for National Rare Disease Day can change, if for instance several hundred people tweeted about Rare Disease Day in early April, then in May a few thousand people tweeted about Rare Disease day, then the date shown for National Rare Disease Day, could come up twice :D

We have also detected mentions of Rare Disease day on;



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National Rare Disease Day

It's Rare Disease Day
On February 29th


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National Rare Disease Day, on the 29th of February

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