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  • ilovecharts: blogut: Disease Case Fatality Rates by David McCandless But we need to to make a huge deal about Swine Flu!!! What else could possibly be important enough to warrant that news time.

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    Disease Case Fatality Rates by David McCandless

    But we need to to make a huge deal about Swine Flu!!! What else could possibly be important enough to warrant that news time.

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    1. eveningcheshirecat reblogged this from blogut and added:
      All this Swine Flu shit, seriously we can’t even sort out cures for other Diseases. Yet, we rush though a Swine flu Jab...
    2. christinagabriela reblogged this from somewhereinmytime and added:
      know your facts! (:
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      because I love stats :) thanks sds:jayparkinsonmd:ilovecharts:blogut: Disease Case Fatality Rates by David McCandless
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      Wow - this is depressing (or not - depends what you suffer from!)
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      ilovecharts:blogut:Disease Case Fatality Rates by David McCandless
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      I want to sent this to whatever administrators decided it was a good idea to require all of the professors to talk about...
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      This is sort of useless without some perspective on how many people are contracting these diseases and if that rate of...
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      I’m not sure what this means exactly. Isn’t Malaria still, by far, the number one killer out of all these diseases?
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      AIDS is old news. Swine Flu is new and kicky! *eye roll*
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      jayparkinsonmd:ilovecharts:blogut:
    70. hapa reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
      This chart is complete nonsense. The percent of people who die is 100%, for every disease. Not to be overly snarky… but...
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      public health threat...the Global Fund spent $327 million dollars fighting it in 2008...
    73. robinsblog reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
      That seasonal flu stat seems wrong. almost 10% of people die?
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      Perspective is always good.
    77. robmandu reblogged this from msg and added:
      100% marker for Life.
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      Disease Case Fatality Rates by David McCandless
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      Please note the big green and big red circles. Thanks.
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      I knew swine flue was nothing to worry about at school!
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      oh, public health, i do love you. though, swine flu needs to be made a big deal about because it’s a novel disease and...
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      lol at seasonal flu being more dangerous than swine flu.
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      But we need to to make a huge deal about Swine Flu!!! What else could possibly be important enough to warrant that news...
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