Volume 23, Number 10—October 2017
Research
Economic Assessment of Waterborne Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis
Aksana Chyzheuskaya, Martin Cormican, Raghavendra Srivinas, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Martina Prendergast, Cathal O’Donoghue, and Dearbháile Morris
Table 2
Overall estimated cost of waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidiosis, Galway, Ireland, 2007*
| Category | Cost, € |
|---|---|
| Private sector costs | |
| Household costs | |
| Bottled water | 3,552,299 |
| Boiled water | 400, 162 |
| Sick (reported and not reported) costs | |
| Sick reported | 300,236 |
| Sick reported wage loss | 36,339 |
| School days lost | 89,074 |
| General practitioner | 12,100 |
| Self-medication (reported) | 1,180 |
| Caregiver income loss (reported) | 161,544 |
| Sick not reported | 74,002 |
| Sick not reported wage loss | 52,973 |
| School days lost (not reported) | 1,922 |
| Self-medication (not reported) | 1,418 |
| Caregiver income loss (not reported) | 17,689 |
| Business costs | |
| Hotel cancelations | 5,374,115 |
| Hotel bottled water bill | 1,734,285 |
| Nurseries, day care centers, and nursing homes water bills | 525,929 |
| Caregiver productivity loss | |
| Sick reported | 176,206 |
| Sick not reported | 19,294 |
| Sick productivity loss | |
| Reported | 36,554 |
| Not reported | 57,781 |
| Public sector costs | |
| Local authorities | |
| Galway City Council | 3,388,840 |
| Galway County Council | 2,472,837 |
| EPA | 20,000 |
| HSE | |
| Accident and emergency | 315 |
| Hospital | 637,791 |
| Extra laboratory tests | 446,349 |
| Response team† | 159,488 |
| Total cost of outbreak | 19,750,722 |
*EPA, Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland; HSE, Health Service Executive.
†Local authorities, EPA, and HSE.
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