Abstract
Having the tighter budgetary and human resources for the livestock disease prevention nowadays, rational and efficient distribution of the existing properties is highly required. In this point of view, it is one of the essential and crucial points to understand the cost of the surveillances to progress their strategic improvement. This document shows the results of the descriptive analyses of the financial cost, which includes the test materials and kits, and the labors involved in the collecting activities related to the 20 active surveillances among 97 notifiable diseases conducted in 2005-2007 in Japan. It was indicated that these two types of costs were largely varied between diseases. When reviewing and replanning the each surveillance, which has own objectives and significances in the Japanese livestock industry, the present results would be useful for the administrative agency.
