Costs from eradication and indemnities would be greater than costs from loss of trade and consumer fears.

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The main idea here is to compare the types of costs an outbreak generates: direct costs of eradicating the disease and paying indemnities versus the broader economic damage from lost trade and sliced consumer demand. While eradication and indemnities are upfront, tangible expenses, the disruption to markets—export bans, reduced demand, and lingering consumer fear—can cause much larger, longer-lasting losses. Those indirect costs can persist well after eradication is achieved and can dwarf the immediate containment costs. So the statement that eradication costs and indemnities would be greater is not usually correct, making the true answer that the comparison is false. Not sure or not applicable don’t fit because market losses are a real, definable part of outbreak economics, and the usual expectation is that indirect costs can exceed direct control costs.