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  Date / Time: 4/26/2009 11:21 PM UTC

  Swine Flu Pandemic Would Cost Trillions of dollars?
  

  John Carney|Apr. 25, 2009, 7:16 PM|13

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  Tags: Economy, The Way We Live Now, Health, Medicine, Recession

  

  This afternoon, the WHO declaredthat the swine flu outbreak in Mexico and the U.S. is a health emergency of international concern.

  Reuters has put together a list of estimates of the economics costs that may be incurred if swine flu becomes a full out pandemic.

   

  • The World Bank estimated in 2008 that a flu pandemic could cost $3 trillion and result in a nearly 5 percent drop in world gross domestic product. The World Bank has estimated that more than 70 million people could die worldwide in a severe pandemic.

   

  • Australian independent think-tank Lowy Institute for International Policy estimated in 2006 that in the worst-case scenario, a flu pandemic could wipe $4.4 trillion off global economic output.

   

  • Two reports in the United States in 2005 estimated that a flu pandemic could cause a serious recession of the U.S. economy, with immediate costs of between $500 billion and $675 billion.

   

  • One report, from the Congressional Budget Office, said hospitals would have difficulty controlling infection and might become sources for spreading the illness.

   

  • A second report by New Jersey-based WBB Securities LLC predicted a one-year economic loss of $488 billion and a permanent economic loss of $1.4 trillion to the U.S. economy.

   

  • SARS in 2003 disrupted travel, trade and the workplace and cost the Asia Pacific region $40 billion. It lasted for six months, killing 775 of the 8,000 people it infected in 25 countri

  • Between the autumn of 1918 and the spring of 1919, 548,452 people died of swine flu in the US.
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