A few people asked for this. And I was curious about it too. So here it is. Case fatality rates for well-known diseases.

This was very hard to research. The AIDS/HIV figures are especially difficult to find. Many of the numbers are locked into the tables of 1,000,000 page PDF reports. Grrrr!

(I tell you – when I sleep these days, my dreams unfold in rows and columns…)

Anyway, if anyone can find tighter, better figures, or can think of any key diseases I’ve missed (preferably with data!), please get in touch.

UPDATE 1: I’ve added this. Thanks to Gorka Cortazar for the suggestion.

sources World Health Organisation, Centre For Disease Control, Guardian Datablog
see the Google doc of data for more

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