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. 2015 Dec 1;12(12):966–971. doi: 10.1089/fpd.2015.1965

Table 3.

Summary of Costs Associated with the 2008 Listeriosis Outbreak in Canadaa

  Mean total costs 5% 95%
Total case costs (including deaths) $162,071,795 $115,825,039 $208,291,225
Total federal outbreak response costs $2,380,928 $2,110,829 $2,652,494
Total costs to the implicated meat-processing facility $77,249,999 $56,774,702 $97,724,604
Overall total costs $241,702,723 $174,710,570 $308,668,323
Overall cost per case $4,240,399 $3,065,098 $5,415,234
a

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