RFK Jr says study will reveal cause of autism ‘epidemic’

US authorities are conducting a large-scale research that ought to in a number of months reveal the reason for the autism “epidemic,” Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mentioned Thursday.

“We have launched a large testing and analysis effort that is going to contain a whole bunch of scientists from world wide,” Kennedy mentioned at a televised cupboard assembly chaired by President Donald Trump.

“By September we’ll know what has triggered the autism epidemic. And we’ll have the ability to get rid of these exposures.”

Kennedy mentioned the prevalence of autism has jumped dramatically in current many years. “The autism charges have gone—from our most up-to-date numbers, we predict are going to be about one in 31 from one in 10,000 once I was a child,” he mentioned, with out providing extra element or citing the supply of the figures.

The US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) presently places the speed of autism in youngsters in the US at one in 36.

“That is a horrible statistic and there is received to be one thing synthetic on the market that is doing this,” Trump commented.

As soon as a celebrated environmental lawyer who accused climate-change deniers of being traitors, for the previous twenty years Kennedy has promoted conspiracy theories linking childhood vaccines to autism and even questioning whether or not germs trigger illness.

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