02058nas a2200265   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260007000043653001900113653002800132653002600160653003700186653000800223653002300231100001500254700001300269700001900282700001500301245009400316250001000410300001200420490000800432520133800440022001401778       2015                            d  c11/2015bSchlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KGaHannover10aanimal disease10aanimal health economics10acost-benefit analysis10abovine spongiform encephalopathy10aBSE10abluetongue disease1 aJ Gethmann1 aC Probst1 aC Sauter-Louis1 aF Conraths00aEconomic analysis of animal disease  outbreaks – BSE and Bluetongue disease as examples  a11/12  a478-4820 v1283 aAlthough there is a long tradition of research on animal disease control, economic evaluation of control measures is rather limited in veterinary medicine. This may, on the one hand, be due to the different types of costs and refunds and the different people and organizations bearing them, such as animal holders, county, region, state or European Union, but it may also be due to the fact that economic analyses are both complex and time consuming. Only recently attention has turned towards economic analysis in animal disease control. Examples include situations, when decisions between different control measures must be taken, especially if alternatives to culling or compulsory vaccination are under discussion. To determine an optimal combination of control measures (strategy), a cost-benefit analysis should be performed. It is not necessary to take decisions only based on the financial impact, but it becomes possible to take economic aspects into account. To this end, the costs caused by the animal disease and the adopted control measures must be assessed. This article presents a brief overview of the methodological approaches used to retrospectively analyse the economic impact of two particular relevant diseases in Germany in the last few years: Bluetongue disease (BT) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).  a0005-9366