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Economic Assessment of Waterborne Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis - Volume 23, Number 10—October 2017 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC

Overview of attention for article published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, October 2017
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Title
Economic Assessment of Waterborne Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis - Volume 23, Number 10—October 2017 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
Published in
Emerging Infectious Diseases, October 2017
DOI 10.3201/eid2310.152037
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Authors

Aksana Chyzheuskaya, Martin Cormican, Raghavendra Srivinas, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Martina Prendergast, Cathal O’Donoghue, Dearbháile Morris

Abstract

In 2007, a waterborne outbreak of Cryptosporidium hominis infection occurred in western Ireland, resulting in 242 laboratory-confirmed cases and an uncertain number of unconfirmed cases. A boil water notice was in place for 158 days that affected 120,432 persons residing in the area, businesses, visitors, and commuters. This outbreak represented the largest outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in Ireland. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cost of this outbreak. We adopted a societal perspective in estimating costs associated with the outbreak. Economic cost estimated was based on totaling direct and indirect costs incurred by public and private agencies. The cost of the outbreak was estimated based on 2007 figures. We estimate that the cost of the outbreak was >€19 million (≈€120,000/day of the outbreak). The US dollar equivalent based on today's exchange rates would be $22.44 million (≈$142,000/day of the outbreak). This study highlights the economic need for a safe drinking water supply.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 58 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 12%
Researcher 7 12%
Student > Master 7 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 7%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 14 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 9 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 7%
Environmental Science 4 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Other 12 21%
Unknown 21 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 December 2019.
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#2,501,872
of 25,019,915 outputs
Outputs from Emerging Infectious Diseases
#2,597
of 9,632 outputs
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#46,537
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Outputs of similar age from Emerging Infectious Diseases
#38
of 123 outputs
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