Dan Bigman, the Managing Editor for Business News at Forbes, published an infographic from Dr. Wilbert van Panhuis, a reasearcher from the University of Pittsburgh. The infographic used Project Tycho data to depict the years medical professionals were required to report 58 infectious diseases from 1888 to 2010.
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The chart below shows the years medical professionals were legally required to report incidents of 58 different diseases--and, intriguingly, when the mandate stopped.
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