Why breed disease-resilient livestock, and how?

Table 1 Cost of fighting disease versus the annual value of genetic improvement (\(\mathrm{\Delta G}\)) in (re)production traits

Area	Year	Disease	Total cost (M€/year)	Cost per head	\(\mathrm{\Delta G}\) per head	Cost/\(\mathrm{\Delta G}\)
NLD	1997	CSF	2340	153
TWN	1997	FMD	1415	119
GBR	2001	FMD	12,864	306
KOR	2010	FMD	1401	87
CHN	2019	ASF	22,768	96
AUS	2006	PAR	389	3.7	0.49	7.7
NLD	2007	BLT	170	37.3	14	2.7
ENG	2010	BTB	127	23.2	4.4	5.2
CAN	2010	PRRS	95	4.5	0.88	5.1
USA	2013	PRRS	860	7.7	1.7	4.6
EUR	2013	PRRS	1660	6.6	1.6	4.1

Areas: NLD Netherlands; TWN Taiwan; GBR Great Britain; KOR South Korea; CHN China; AUS Australia; ENG England; CAN Canada; EUR Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain and United Kingdom
Diseases: CSF classical swine fever; FMD foot and mouth disease (ungulates); ASF African swine fever; PAR ectoparasites (sheep); BLT bluetongue (ungulates); BTB bovine tuberculosis; PRRS porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome
More details, including references and footnotes, are in Additional file 1: Table S1

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