Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday said the U.S. is experiencing an “autism epidemic” that he claims cannot be explained by “better diagnostic criteria” or “genes.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network survey, which was released as part of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, shows the prevalence of autism in the country has risen from 1 in 36 children to 1 in 31 children, according to the most recent data.
“The autism epidemic is running rampant,” Kennedy said in a press release. “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. Prevalence for boys is an astounding 1 in 20, and in California it’s 1 in 12.5.”
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