Volume 16, Number 3—March 2010
Research
Economic Cost Analysis of West Nile Virus Outbreak, Sacramento County, California, USA, 2005
Loren M. Barber, Jerome J. Schleier, and Robert K.D. Peterson
Table 3
Estimated economic costs of WNND cases due to productivity loss, Sacramento County, California, 2005*
| Productivity loss | Value of work day missed† | Value of nonwork day missed‡ | No. work days missed | No. nonwork days missed | No. patients |
% Cases | Total costs for all cases | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <60 | >60 | |||||||
| For patients <60 y | $191 | $125 | 50 | 10 | 31 | 100 | $334,800 | |
| For patients >60 y | $125 | 60 | 15 | 100 | $112,500 | |||
| For caretakers |
$125 |
25 |
8 |
4 |
26 |
$37,500 |
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| Total costs | $484,800 | |||||||
