Table 1.

Case Costs Associated with the 2008 Listeriosis Outbreak in Canada^a

	Mean total costs	5%	95%	Number of cases
Direct healthcare costs
Hospital fees	$647,921	$377,262	$1,012,421	57
General physician fees	$35,439	$30,615	$40,735	57
Diagnosis/specialist/treatment costs	$67,891	$49,873	$87,904	57
Total direct healthcare costs	$751,251	$478,272	$1,117,835
Indirect nonhealthcare costs
Lost productivity due to illness	$26,845	$9,869	$63,418
Total indirect nonhealthcare costs	$26,845	$9,869	$63,418
Direct nonhealthcare costs
Transportation costs to hospital	$797	—	—	47
Transportation costs to general practitioner clinic	$41	$27	$53	4
Total direct nonhealthcare costs	$838	$824	$850
Total cost of illness	$778,934	$503,867	$1,146,272
Cost of illness per case	$13,666	$8,840	$20,110
Total DALYs	142	142	143
DALYs per case	2	2	3
Total VSL values for deaths	$161,292,861	$115,026,682	$207,557,221	24
Total case costs (including VSL for deaths)	$162,071,795	$115,825,039	$208,291,225
Cost per case (including VSL for deaths)	$2,843,365	$2,032,018	$3,654,232

^aTotals are based on stochastic distributions and thus column input values do not necessarily add exactly to totals.

DALYs, disability-adjusted life years; VSL, value of statistical life.