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. 2018 Jun 6;13(6):e0198436. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198436

Table 1. Costs associated with the presence of Johne’s disease.

Source of cost £ per infected cow per year € per infected cow per yeara
Milk yield loss 60.57 70.73
Opportunity cost within lactation 1.36 1.59
Opportunity cost of a prolonged dry period 2.38 2.78
Herd age structure 2.26 2.64
Culling
    Involuntary culling -6.87 -8.03
    Voluntary culling 51.19 59.78
Veterinary cost 2.00 2.3354
Total cost 112.89 131.82
Total cost excluding milk yield loss 52.31 61.09

a 1.37766 average British pound to euro currency exchange rate over 2015 [43]