Legionella outbreak in Germany, 2013 – ReThinking Visualization

Legionella outbreak in Germany, 2013

Inspired by the historical John Snow map about the cholera outbreak in London, Visual Telling created a bubble map of the 2013 legionella outbreak in Germany. With the “Legionella outbreak in Germany, 2013” it is possible to see that the number of occurrences ranged significantly by the federal state, the highest number of occurrences (166) being registered in the county Soest, where, like the map seems to hint, the source was.