The opinions regarding importance of individual criteria varied greatly across the participants for some criteria, while it was similar for others. For example, eleven participants considered the criterion ''Public attention'' to be of a low importance (scoring it ''2'') and the same number considered it to be of a relatively high importance (scoring it ''6''). At the same time, other criteria such as ''Case fatality rate (CFR)'' and ''Trend'' were weighted in a similar way by the majority of the respondents. When looking at the median weights, the criterion ''Case fatality rate'' was considered the most important criterion (median weight of ''9'') while ''Trend'' and ''Public attention'' (both with a median weight of ''5'') were considered the least important ones ( Table 2) .