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The amount of people contracting diseases from bites can increase, but it doesn't actually mean you're more likely to contract diseases from bites. For instanc
by Sevrene 8y ago
The amount of people contracting diseases from bites can increase, but it doesn't actually mean you're more likely to contract diseases from bites.
For instance here in Australia there has been a rise of shark attacks recently. The reason isn't necessarily because sharks were attacking more people or acting more aggressively, it was because more people were in the water.
It's interesting how statistics can point you in the wrong direction.
- stevenwoo 8y agoAlthough interesting, that analogy doesn't hold for the ticks discussed - the range, habitat and viable seasons for Lyme disease carrying ticks has extended greatly due to climate change across the globe and infection rates have been mostly increasing every year for the past two decades.
- et-al 8y agoThat's a good point. We can probably account for the increase by seeing when Instagram started having an uptick in #outsideisfree photos.
- sizzle 8y ago"uptick" heh