An analysis of economic costs associated with an outbreak of typhoid fever.
We examined the costs of a typhoid fever outbreak caused by exposures to contaminated food over a 47-day period at a restaurant. For the 49 respondents, the patient-related costs (+215,548) were primarily medical expenses (+183,902) and lost income or productivity (+28,603). The estimated patient-related costs for all 80 outbreak-associated cases was +351,920. Had contaminated food continued to be served, the prevention-related costs (+36,500) would have been offset by patient-related costs (+7,488/day) within 5 days.
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology; D005506:Food Contamination; D006801:Humans; D008460:Meat; D013781:Texas; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology