A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Preparing National Veterinary Services for Transboundary Animal Disease Emergencies

Figure 1

Proportion of the population exposed to African swine fever, foot and mouth disease, and highly pathogenic avian influenza for each outbreak reported to WOAH WAHIS 2015–2019. The frequency of observation density (y-axis) has a large positive skew, with larger outbreaks becoming increasingly infrequent as proportion of total population exposed increases. A rug plot (blue) running along the x-axis illustrates all the observations by their x coordinate, highlighting the location of extreme values.