Table 7.

Ranking of zoonotic disease selection criteria using analytical hierarchical process with weighted scores and (ranks) for each group, 2017.^⁎

Criteria	Group: weighted scores (ranks)					Final weight	Overall ranking
	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5
Epidemic Potential	0.28 (2)	0.31 (2)	0.28 (2)	0.46 (1)	0.31 (2)	0.23	1
Severity	0.42 (1)	0.08 (4)	0.37 (1)	0.27 (2)	0.42 (1)	0.22	2
Burden	0.17 (3)	0.41 (1)	0.16 (3)	0.05 (5)	0.16 (3)	0.2	3
Ability to Prevent and Control	0.09 (4)	0.16 (3)	0.11 (4)	0.07 (4)	0.06 (4)	0.18	4
Socio-economic impact	0.04 (5)	0.04 (5)	0.08 (5)	0.15 (3)	0.04 (5)	0.17	5
Consistency ratio	0.04	0.06	0.04	0.08	0.02

^⁎Consistency ratio < 0.1 is significant.