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Explain why Autism is so prevalent in the USA, as opposed to the rest of the world ?


10 posted on 04/11/2012 3:33:22 AM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: maine yankee
Explain why Autism is so prevalent in the USA, as opposed to the rest of the world ?

What makes you think the prevalence in the USA is so different?

The Autism Wars

"In South Korea, a recent study found a prevalence rate of one in 38 children, and a study in England found autism at roughly the same rate — 1 percent — in adults as in children, implying that the condition had gone unidentified previously, rather than an actual increase in its incidence."

11 posted on 04/11/2012 12:13:47 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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