Here is the scatterplot from The Guardian Data Blog I showed briefly in class, which plots “deadliness” vs “contagiousness” for various infectious diseases:

Here, “deadliness” is measured by the average case fatality rate (the % of infectees who die) and contagiousness is measured by an epidemiological statistics called R0, the basic reproduction number.

Note that the data behind this scatterplot is available at http://bit.ly/KIB_Microbescope, in the form of a Google spreadsheet.