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Bullshit, they're not exploding. Lyme disease confirmed cases are occurring at roughly the same rate in 2017 as 2007. Look at the CDC data yourself: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/graphs.html


You can call "bullshit" by picking a random year, sure.

I can pick 2010 (22,561) vs 2017 (29,513)

Their data set begins at 1997 and ends in 2017 though:

1997: 12,801

2017: 29,513


Exploding doesn't just mean increasing, it means accelerating. No one would look at that graph and say the rate is increasing. No doubt they excluded it from their article, and instead chose to cherry-pick years like you're saying, because it discredits their title.




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