Accidental Gunfire Most Distinctive Cause of Death in Tennessee and Alabama

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A regular old map that shows the leading cause of death in each state would show the usual culprits of heart disease and cancer all over the place, and we’ve seen lots of them.

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Things get more interesting, however, with a map that shows the “most distinctive” cause of death in each state—the one that “stands out most relative to its national average,” explains the Washington Post.

The New York State Cancer Registry has compiled just such a map, with the results newly published by the CDC. Some highlights as noted by the Post, LiveScience, and the map’s creators:

Accidental gunfire: Tennessee and Alabama
Plane, boat, or “other transport” accidents: Alaska and Idaho
Legal intervention (including executions): New Mexico, Nevada, and Oregon
Lung diseases: Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
Inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs: New York and Connecticut
Flu: Maine, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming
Syphilis: Louisiana
Sepsis: New Jersey
HIV: Florida
Tuberculosis: Texas
Hyperplasia of prostate: California

Check out the full map showing the most distinctive causes of death in the USA.

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