ANTC68H3 Chapter Notes -Epidemiology Of Autism, Thiomersal, Intellectual Disability
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One in 166 is the proportion of children who suffer from autism. Mmr contain thimerosal, a preservative that contains mercury that parents say causes autism 12 of 13 authors of one study stating this conclusion have retracted their earlier claims. More autism or different labeling: changes in diagnostic criteria could also account for increasing autism cases, one diagnosis substituted for another. Swapped diagnoses: autism epidemic may be more illusory than real. Conducted an investigation that used population based estimates to track the prevalence of autism diagnoses from 1992 to 1998 in 10,000 children in england.
