This map shows which disease is most likely to kill you depending on where you live
A cordoned-off wing of the extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), a near untreatable strain of the disease, at the Brooklyn Infectious Disease Hospital in Cape Town.
Using data from the World Health Organization, we labeled every country in the world with the disease that caused the most deaths within the nation.
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Africa
Middle East & Asia
Europe
Central America & the Caribbean
South America
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