Table 2.

Estimated losses due to certain OIE listed virus diseases since their emergence and/or.

Virus – region	Year of emergence	Product loss to industry
IHHNV – Americasa	1981	$0.5–1 billion
YHV – Asia	1991	$0.5 billion
TSV – Americas	1991/1992	$1–2 billion
TSV – Asia	1999	$0.5–1 billion
WSSV – Asia	1992/1993	$6 billion
WSSV– Americas	1999	$1–2 billion
IMNV – Americas	2004	$100–200 million
IMNV – Asia	2006	??

^aIncludes the Gulf of California fishery for Litopenaeus stylirostris (Lightner, 1996b, Pantoja et al., 1999, Morales-Covarrubias et al., 1999).