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How dangerous IS that infectious disease? This infograph tells you

London-based data journalist David McCandless put together a pretty scatterplot about the relative dangers of infectious […]

London-based data journalist David McCandless put together a pretty scatterplot about the relative dangers of infectious disease.  McCandless sums up the infograph nice: “It’s a statistical measure of how likely an infectious disease might spread through a population – if nothing is done to contain the outbreak.”

Behold.

Note: The X axis is the “basic reproduction number” – it’s all about how many folks are infected through exposure to a single case of the disease; the Y axis is all about the deadliness of the disease. You can pore over the data sheet he compiled here.

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