U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Sees "Many Causes" of Autism

CDC Sees “Many Causes” of Autism by Jack O'Dwyer, odwyerpr.com, 20 July 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, responding to this website, says there are many causes of autism and it is “not specifically looking at different sources of radiation” as a possible cause. CDC, whose budget for 2016 is $11.5 billion, has been headed since 2009 by Dr. Tom Frieden. The email statement from the CDC News Media Branch is as follows. “Autism Spectrum Disorders is a complex disorder, and most scientists who study ASD believe that there is no single cause. We have learned that there are likely many causes for multiple types of ASD. There may also be many different factors that make a child more likely to have ASD, including environmental and genetic factors. Understanding more about these factors will help us learn more about the causes.

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