Guess the Map II: witty sequel titles failed me

[dwaxe]

Might it be tropical diseases in general?

 

[Masada]

Polio is a possibility. I honestly don't know though, I wouldn't have thought South-east Asia would have been so overrepresented compared to say, Sub-Saharan Africa? I'm just working on the assumption that polio isn't correlated, to my knowledge, with climate and has a readily available reasonably cheap vaccine (which should surely, within reason, be more accessible in relatively wealthy Indonesia?). My brain is telling me that Suharto did a big anti-polio drive in the mid-80s through, but I'm not a 100% sure. That's probably one of the better guesses so far because I honestly can't tell you anything about polio incidence in South-east Asia.

Some possible candidates with explanations usually against: giardia (prevalent throughout Southeast Asia, but I know nothing of external distribution), dysentery (same thing as polio, I would expect Africa to be darker than it is), cholera (same thing as polio, albeit with Haiti as well), dengue (although that has a far more limited range than the map suggests; furthermore, Australia has dengue, New Zealand doesn't), leprosy (again it's been wiped out in Australia and New Zealand).

Might it be tropical diseases in general?

What's a tropical disease? You can catch malaria in some decidedly untropical places...

 

[madviking]

Nothing so far.

 

[say1988]

Rabies?

 

[danjuno]

Try this.

Black Death, Lighter being more cases and darker being less cases?

 

[madviking]

I should say that it's not really a "disease" per se, as it is usually noncommunicable. It's more of an illness or condition.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Homosexuality

 

[emzie]

Blindness?

 

[dwaxe]

Undernutrition?

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

David Hasselhoff fans?

 

[dwaxe]

Lactose intolerance?

 

[Joecoolyo]

^That's probably it.

 

[madviking]

Nope.

 

[Masada]

We've had lactose intolerance 3 times already that I'm aware of...

 

[Joecoolyo]

Nope.

Damn, really? It looks very similar to those (as Masada pointed out) lactose intolerance maps we've had before.

Huh, the only thing I know about this map is that the key lies in Indonesia, a country I know so little about...

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

No, the key lies between Australia and Indonesia: whatever Indonesia has the most of and Australia has the least or not all.

 

[bite]

H5N1 avian influenza

 

[ZeletDude]

Cigarette smoking?

 

[LAnkou]

I thought of something genetic...maybe linked to haplogroups O1

 

[Masada]

I actually thought rabies was a good idea, but again, while Indonesia should be dark, it shouldn't be the darkest by a significant margin. Besides, South-east Asia isn't exactly known for rabies compared to Africa say. I don't have to get a rabies shot for Indonesia either AFAIK, nor Laos, nor Cambodia for that matter.

H5N1 avian influenza

China should be darkest red. Also, it isn't a disease per say.

Cigarette smoking?

That's actually a really good guess. Smoking in Indonesia is ubiquitous and the favoured type of cigarette 'kretek' (made with cloves) are rather strong. (So much so, that I can no longer buy them here or import them, which is a shame). But I would have thought that equally hard smoking China would be darker. Australia shouldn't be that light either, it isn't notable for being smoke free compared to other western countries.