Figure 2: The economic cost of a sample of emerging zoonotic infectious diseases of the late 20th and early 21st Century. The examples are bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE) in the UK, Lyme disease in the US, Nipah virus (NiV) in Malaysia, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Corona virus, and the annual costs to the US of HIV in 2002, and seasonal influenza (Flu) in 2004 [22,98,99].