Skip to main content
. 2020 Oct 14;52:60. doi: 10.1186/s12711-020-00580-4

Table 1.

Cost of fighting disease versus the annual value of genetic improvement (ΔG) in (re)production traits

Area Year Disease Total cost (M€/year) Cost per head ΔG per head Cost/ΔG
NLD 1997 CSF 2340 153
TWN 1997 FMD 1415 119
GBR 2001 FMD 12,864 306
KOR 2010 FMD 1401 87
CHN 2019 ASF 22,768 96
AUS 2006 PAR 389 3.7 0.49 7.7
NLD 2007 BLT 170 37.3 14 2.7
ENG 2010 BTB 127 23.2 4.4 5.2
CAN 2010 PRRS 95 4.5 0.88 5.1
USA 2013 PRRS 860 7.7 1.7 4.6
EUR 2013 PRRS 1660 6.6 1.6 4.1

Areas: NLD Netherlands; TWN Taiwan; GBR Great Britain; KOR South Korea; CHN China; AUS Australia; ENG England; CAN Canada; EUR Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain and United Kingdom

Diseases: CSF classical swine fever; FMD foot and mouth disease (ungulates); ASF African swine fever; PAR ectoparasites (sheep); BLT bluetongue (ungulates); BTB bovine tuberculosis; PRRS porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome

More details, including references and footnotes, are in Additional file 1: Table S1