Rhonda works for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as a data analyst. She is writing a report on the steady increase in reported cases of Lyme disease, an illness spread by ticks, among Americans in the past decade. The best possible explanation for increased rates might be that __________.
A) wild bird populations, which eat ticks, are declining because more people are keeping birds as pets
B) people are spending more time engaged in outdoor recreation than they did in previous decades
C) tick species thrive in warmer climates, which is the result of climate change
D) people are using less bug spray than they did in previous decades
C) tick species thrive in warmer climates, which is the result of climate change
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