What is your state’s special way of killing people?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a map on May 14 showing the most distinctive cause of death for each state – that is, a way of dying that statistically sets that state apart from all the others. The data for the map is from 2001 through 2010.

In Florida, residents have an above-average chance of dying from HIV. In Texas, it’s tuberculosis. Louisiana had 22 syphilis deaths, setting it apart from the rest of the nation, and in Montana 11 poor souls passed from “acute and rapidly progressive nephritic and nephrotic syndrome.”

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The report’s data and methodology can be found on the CDC website.