Is the autism rate up due to better diagnosis, more child vaccine usage, or both?
Autism Rates Jump 57% as Awareness of Disease Grows
By Tom Randall and Ellen Gibson
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Autism rates increased 57 percent from 2002 to 2006, part of a decades-long surge of cases as doctors and parents become more aware of the disorder.
About 1 in every 110 8-year-olds in the U.S. had autism spectrum disorder in 2006, according to a report today released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. While more cases are being identified as people become aware of the disorder, a rise in the number of kids affected “cannot be ruled out,” the CDC said.
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