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Virulence and growth rate. White circles are ingested parasites; grey circles are inhaled parasites; black circles are parasites that infect via skin wounds. Smaller generation times imply faster growth. We found a significant negative relationship between case fatality rate (%) and generation time (generations per week) (electronic supplementary material, tables S1 and S2).
