Moty asked:
I am just curious whether autism is a global issue, or just an issue in countries where children get immunizations. Are there studies? On the Today Show, doctors were claiming that autism just surfaces around the same time children are immunized. Wouldn’t this be easy to prove by assessing the rates of autism in children of underdeveloped nations (who haven’t been immunized)?
I am just curious whether autism is a global issue, or just an issue in countries where children get immunizations. Are there studies? On the Today Show, doctors were claiming that autism just surfaces around the same time children are immunized. Wouldn’t this be easy to prove by assessing the rates of autism in children of underdeveloped nations (who haven’t been immunized)?
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Yes, it’s a disease of all nations. But industrialized nations tend to have better medical care, so they can separate kids into “retarded” and “autistic.” In countries without good medical care, the kids aren’t separated like that. So it’s hard to get hard numbers of how many kids are autistic. In fact, in the U.S. autistic numbers have been going up as numbers of kids diagnosed with other forms of mental disability have gone down, so diagnosis is improving here as autism is recognized more. There have been extensive studies in which some children were immunized, and others not, to see if rates of autism were different. They were not. Therefore, there’s really no evidence that it’s due to the immunizations, and considerable evidence that it’s not due to the immunizations.
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