A list of notifiable disease outbreaks for the last 10 years (taken from previous Chief Veterinary Officer annual reports) is set out in the following table.
Disease 2007 Avian Influenza (Al) Bluetongue Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Contagious Equine Metritis Organism (CEMO) Bat Rabies (European Bat Lyssavirus Type 2) Tuberculosis (TB) 2006 Al Newcastle Disease Bat Rabies Anthrax CEMO Equine Infectious Anaemia Scrapie Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) TB 2005 Newcastle Disease CEMO Scrapie BSE Paramyxovirus (PMV) in Pigeons TB 2004 Brucellosis Scrapie PMV in Pigeons BSE Equine Viral Arteritis TB 2003 Scrapie PMV in Pigeons BSE CEMO Brucellosis TB 2002 Scrapie PMV in Pigeons BSE CEMO Anthrax TB 2001 Scrapie PMV in Pigeons BSE Foot and Mouth Disease TB 2000 Scrapie PMV in Pigeons BSE Classical Swine Fever TB 1999 PMV in Pigeons BSE Scrapie TB 1998 PMV in Pigeons BSE Equine Viral Arteritis Scrapie TB
Information on the cost of all notifiable disease outbreaks is not available for each of the past 10 years. Available evidence suggests that by far the most costly exotic disease outbreak in this period was FMD in 2001, which was estimated to have cost Government £2.6 billion (in 2001 prices), leaving a further £355 million in uncompensated costs to agricultural producers.
DEFRA's current estimate of the economic cost to the UK livestock sector as a result of the 2007 FMD outbreak is over £100million. The estimated total cost to the Government of the outbreaks in 2007 is £47 million for FMD, £1.7 million on bluetongue and £5 million on Al (two outbreaks). The other values could only be provided at disproportionate cost to the Department.