Chapter 1 - The Main Themes of Microbiology - Critical Thinking Questions - Bloom's Levels 3, 4, and 5: Apply, Analyze, and Evaluate - Page 24: 10

Since the past year was wettest year in 100 years and cases of West Nile Virus skyrocketed, which is a mosquito born virus, we can construct our hypothesis as follows: " The cases of virus has been skyrocketed due to the increase in population of mosquitoes, which was due to more wet conditions than normal"

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