A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that autism is up 16.1% since the last time they checked.
The new report shows that 1 in 31 children have autism.
Could it be because it is more broadly diagnosed? Possibly but why would it vary so much by region?
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said this in a statement: “The autism epidemic is running rampant. One in 31 American children born in 2014 are disabled by autism. That’s up significantly from two years earlier and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children born in 1992, opens in a new tab. Prevalence for boys is an astounding 1 in 20 and in California it’s 1 in 12.5.”
This clearly calls for more research and Secretary Kennedy said this: “Autism is preventable and it is unforgivable that we have not yet identified the underlying causes. We should have had these answers 20 years ago.”
