Urban Cartography

piggy trouble: swine flu visualized

The historic spread of bubonic plague throughout Europe, 1347 to 1351 and onward. Did they just build a wall around Poland and Milan or something? [or, as one commenter suggested, maybe they just killed all their rats and burned them]

US Mortality rates (from the mean), mapped

expenditures on health care as a percentage of GDP; from here. Data is from 2005 or latest available year.  

American health rankings, by state: light gray is healthiest, dark blue least healthy, and the metric is rank; determinants here.

HIV infection worldwide as of 2007, courtesy of the World Healh Organization

Leading Causes of Cancer Deaths, from data published by the American Cancer Society; graphic by the New York Times

Bill of Health by Good Magazine and Karlssonwilker

chart illustrating admissions to substance abuse treatment services, separated by race and drug

Your chances of death are one in one, when you get right down to it, unless you know something I don't.