This map shows the disease most likely to kill you
A country-by-country comparison

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.
Click on the map to below to see an enlarged version of the full map.
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This article, by Simran Khosla, originally appeared at GlobalPost.
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