Figure 1. Direct costs associated with disease eradication, totaling 1.32 billion US$ attributed to specific activities in the 1997 classical swine fever outbreak in the Netherlands (12). Consequential indirect losses to farmers and other related industries were an additional 1.02 billion US$ (19). The number in brackets is amount in million US$. Shaded areas are operational activities for which there is a current method of funding and legislative authority to deliver in Canada. Unshaded areas are costs of animal welfare with the exception of breeding prohibition.