--- title: The Economic Impact of Campylobacter Infections date: 2021-01-04T19:43:00-08:00 author: admin canonical_url: "https://marlerclark.com/foodborne-illnesses/campylobacter/campylobacter-economic-impact" section: Resource Library --- [Foodborne Illnesses](/foodborne-illnesses) / [Campylobacter](https://marlerclark.com/foodborne-illnesses/campylobacter) / # The Economic Impact of Campylobacter Infections ### What are the estimated yearly medical costs and productivity losses due to Campylobacter infection? The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) published its first comprehensive cost estimates for sixteen foodborne bacterial pathogens in 1989. \[24\] Five years later, it was estimated that the medical costs and productivity losses that *Campylobacter* infections caused each year ran from $907 million to over $1 billion, based on an estimate of 2.1 million cases and between 120-360 deaths. \[15\] Using a different kind of economic analysis, this same 1996 study estimated that the average cost of each *Campylobacter* infection to be $920, with this estimate based on a much lower incidence and death rate. \[15\] In 1996, ERS updated the cost-estimates for six bacterial pathogens, including *Campylobacter*. \[28\] ERS continued to use cost-of-illness (COI) methodology for nonfatal illnesses, but adopted two different health valuation methodologies for premature deaths: the individualized human capital approach and the willingness-to-pay (WTP) approach. This report concluded as follows: > *We assumed that 55-70 percent of all estimated human illness cases of* Campylobacter *in the United States are foodborne (1,375,000 to 1,750,000 cases). Estimates of those who do not visit a physician range from 1,293,765 to 1,646,239 cases annually. A low of 74,250 and a high of 94,500 visit a physician. The number of hospitalized cases (including those who died) ranges from 6,985 to 9,261. Foodborne deaths caused by* Campylobacter *range from 110 to 511 annually. Given our assumption that 55-70 percent of all U.S. Campylobacteriosis cases are attributed to food, estimated costs of foodborne Campylobacteriosis range from $0.6-$1.0 billion annually.* ERS updated the cost-estimates for four pathogens (*Campylobacter*, *Salmonella*, *E. coli* O157:H7, and Listeria monocytogenes) again in 2000. The 2000 estimates were based on newly released estimates of annual foodborne illnesses by the CDC, and put the total cost in the United States for these four pathogens at $6.5 billion a year. More recently, in 2007, it was estimated that the annual costs of all foodborne disease in the United States was $1.4 trillion. \[8\] [ Next: Real Life Impacts of Campylobacter Infection › ](https://marlerclark.com/foodborne-illnesses/campylobacter/real-life-impacts-of-campylobacter-infection) ### More information about Campylobacter [January 11, 2022 ###### Preventing Campylobacter Outbreaks: What you need to know Campylobacter jejuni grows poorly on properly refrigerated foods but does survive refrigeration and will grow if contaminated foods are left out at room temperature. The bacterium is sensitive to heat ... ](https://marlerclark.com/news_events/preventing-campylobacter-outbreaks-what-you-need-to-know) [October 28, 2012 ###### The Family Farm Raw Milk Campylobacter Lawsuit – Pennsylvania (2012) The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed at least 80 cases of Campylobacter infections in an outbreak tied to contaminated unpasteurized milk from The Family Cow dairy, located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. ... ](https://marlerclark.com/news_events/the-family-farm-raw-milk-campylobacter-lawsuit-) [January 01, 2009 ###### Kinikin Dairy Raw Milk Campylobacter Outbreak - Colorado (2009) At least 8 people were sickened with Campylobacter from consuming raw milk produced by the Kinikin Corner Dairy in Montrose, Colorado. The dairy was ordered to stop production of raw ... ](https://marlerclark.com/news_events/kinikin-dairy-raw-milk-campylobacter-colorado) [November 23, 2008 ###### Alexandre EcoDairy Raw Milk Campylobacter Outbreak Lawsuit - California (2008) In the summer of 2008, an outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni in Del Norte County, California (near the Oregon border) that sickened 16 people was traced to Alexandre EcoDairy Farm raw ... ](https://marlerclark.com/news_events/alexandre-ecodairy-campylobacter-outbreak-in-raw-milk) [1. 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