India, April 17 -- The autism epidemic is "running rampant" in the United States, the Health and Human Services Secretary says as new data shows that one in 31 children born in the country are disabled by autism.
Autism prevalence in the U.S. has increased from 1 in 36 children to 1 in 31, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network survey.
"The autism epidemic is running rampant," said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "One in 31 American children born in 2014 are disabled by autism. That's up significantly from two years earlier and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children born in 1992, opens ...