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David Kirby: Dr. Insel on Rising ASD Numbers: “No Question” About Environmental Factors
by David Kirby
On Friday, the CDC released its long-anticipated (HERE) autism figures, showing that the average rate of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) among 8-year-olds increased by nearly 60% between 2002 and 2006, with almost one percent of US kids affected.
Also on Friday, the nation’s top autism research coordinator said that better diagnosis and reporting could not “explain away this huge increase,” and that “there is no question that there has got to be an environmental component here.”
He added that some ASDs may be preventable, that some children could recover from the disorder, and that a virus might conceivably play a role in some autism cases.
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