Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Humans get Lyme disease from infected ticks. Ticks get infected by fee

Radyah

There's no real support for D. All we know about the choice of mice as a food source is that ticks use them a lot when diversity is low. Perhaps there's not much other choice. But that doesn't mean that they don't use them at all when diversity is high, or that diversity needs to reach ZERO for them to feed on mice. As a parallel, think about a cheap food option like fast food or ramen cups. That might become your main food source if money is tight, but that doesn't mean you only eat those things when you have no other choice. You might be rolling in cash and still enjoy the occasional cheap snack. So we really have no idea how reluctant ticks are to feed on mice. D is not supported.

C, on the other hand, is just about RELATIVE risk. Sure, in theory one tick might infect more than one person (although if you've ever had a tick on you, I bet you killed it!), but it's still safe to say that if a greater number of ticks are infected, then humans are more likely to encounter an
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Statistics : Posted by DmitryFarber • on 06 Jul 2015, 02:21 • Replies 23 • Views 73054

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