Table 3.

Results of the ranking of exotic diseases/conditions in Ireland by stakeholders in the animal health sector.

Ranking	Exotic Disease/Condition	Frequency	Weighted Average2	Importance3
1	African Swine Fever (ASF)	32	7.97	255
2	Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)	32	7.50	240
3	Bluetongue Virus (BTV)	26	6.27	163
4	Bovine brucellosis	25	6.52	163
5	Rabies	27	5.59	151
6	Classical Swine Fever (CSF)	27	5.37	145
7	Avian Influenza	24	5.92	142
8	Dioxin contamination of pork meat	13	5.38	70
9	Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA)	17	4.06	69
10	Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA)	16	4.13	66
11	Disease X*1	13	5.08	66
12	African Horse Sickness	16	4.06	65
13	Enzootic Bovine Leukosis (EBL)	19	3.16	60
14	Anthrax	11	5.36	59
15	Fowl Typhoid (Salmonella gallinarum)	10	4.70	47
16	Aujeszky's Disease	12	3.33	40
17	Rift Valley Fever	8	3.00	24
18	Brucella melitensis	5	4.40	22
19	Caprine arthritis encephalitis	5	3.20	16
20	Equine piroplasmosis	2	3.50	7

¹Disease X is a previously unrecognized disease, which could first emerge in Ireland.

²Weighted average was calculated using reverse scoring, for example if a disease was ranked as 1st place then the weight was 10. If a disease was ranked in 10th place the weight was 1. The average of these weights were used in the calculation of importance.

³Calculation of importance, this is a product of frequency of response multiplied by weighted average.