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ERS estimates that the annual economic cost of salmonellosis—the illness caused by the
Salmonella
bacterium—is $2,708,292,046 (2010 dollars).
This estimate is for all cases of salmonellosis, not just foodborne cases. The
estimate includes medical costs due to illness, the cost (value) of time lost from work due to nonfatal
illness, and the cost (value) of premature death. It excludes a number of other potential costs, such as
those associated with chronic complications, disutility for nonfatal illness, pain and suffering, travel,
childcare, etc. Review
ERS per case assumptions and
calculation descriptions.
See Consumer Price Index components and ERS assumptions
for information on dollar value conversions.
NOTE: The default number of Salmonella cases entered in the cost calculator was obtained from an update by Voetsch and others (see FoodNet Estimate of the Burden of Illness Caused by Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections in the United States) of an earlier case estimate by CDC (see Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States). Both estimates are now outdated because CDC has recently released a new estimate of annual Salmonella cases (see Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens). ERS plans to update the calculator to include the new CDC case estimate; in the meantime, calculator users can refer to the new CDC estimate and change the number of Salmonella cases themselves. However, users should be aware of 2 caveats in using the new CDC estimate: 1) CDC reported only the total number of Salmonella cases (1,229,007), hospitalizations (23,128), and deaths (452), so users must decide whether the distribution of cases by severity has changed over time, and 2) the new CDC estimate is statistically uncertain, although CDC measured the uncertainty and reported 90 percent credibility intervals for the total number of cases (772,129-2,008,076), hospitalizations (10,221-44,860), and deaths (0-1,210).
Complete documentation of the Calculator assumptions and detailed citations are also available.
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| Cost component |
Didn't visit physician; survived
Change
per case costs for Severity
1
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Visited physician; survived
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per case costs for Severity
2
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Hospitalized; survived
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per case costs for Severity
3
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Visited physician / hospitalized; died
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per case costs for Severity
4
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Total |
Number of cases
(Change number of cases)
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1,224,547 |
157,738 |
14,487 |
415 |
1,397,187 |
| All illness |
dollars |
| |
Medical: |
0 |
63,426,608 |
176,196,471 |
4,573,250 |
244,196,329 |
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Medications |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| |
|
Office visits |
0 |
28,076,733 |
1,289,314 |
52,763 |
29,418,810 |
| |
|
Emergency room |
0 |
7,944,159 |
2,188,826 |
62,702 |
10,195,687 |
| |
|
Outpatient visit |
0 |
27,405,716 |
1,678,000 |
48,069 |
29,131,784 |
| |
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Hospitalization |
0 |
0 |
171,040,331 |
4,409,717 |
175,450,047 |
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Productivity, nonfatal |
64,911,277 |
27,794,160 |
6,900,162 |
243,559 |
99,849,157 |
| |
Disutility, nonfatal |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Premature death |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2,364,246,559 |
2,364,246,559 |
| ERS total cost, 2010 |
64,911,277 |
91,220,767 |
183,096,633 |
2,369,063,368 |
2,708,292,046 |
| ERS average cost per case, 2010 |
53 |
578 |
12,639 |
5,708,586 |
1,938 |
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