Autism rates continue to climb, cannot be accounted for by ‘better awareness’

The new numbers, compiled in 2010 and just released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show the rate of autism has more than doubled in the last eight years. The numbers of children affected by autism have gone up in every socioeconomic group and region, and can no longer be explained away by ‘better awareness’ and ‘better diagnosis’ – according to study authors “all those factors can’t account for a shift of this magnitude”.

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Posted by on Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 7:42PM
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