A study will establish the causes of the « autism epidemic », announces the US Minister of Health – Liberation
The American Minister of Health promises him: the causes of what he describes as« Autism epidemic » will be found. Robert Kennedy Jr. – Notoriously vaccino-skeptical – announced this Thursday, April 10, that a study conducted by the American health authorities would make it possible to establish, « By September », « which caused the epidemic of autism. And we will be able to eliminate these factors ”. « We have launched research work that will involve hundreds of scientists from around the world », He also said during a government meeting at the White House. But the involvement of Robert Kennedy Jr in such a work has something to worry about: the Minister has indeed established several times a link between the compulsory vaccine ROR (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism, a theory resulting from a rigged study and many times denied by later studies.
RFK Jr.’s announcements were immediately praised by President Donald Trump, present in the room. « There is something that causes it », He assured, advancing avenues himself: « It is possible that we should stop taking something, or eating something, or maybe it’s a vaccine. » And point the increase « terrible » Autism cases recorded in the country in recent years. The subject is therefore dear, both to the Republican President and at the Robert Kennedy Jr. vaccino-skeptic, who have been suggesting for several years that vaccines could be responsible for the rise in This neurode development disorder.
Despite the existence of several studies contradicting this theory around the vaccine, RFK Jr. ordered in March the holding of a new investigation on the subject. Solicited by AFP on the announcement of this new study on the causes of autism, the Ministry of Health did not immediately provide any details.
According to CDC figures (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in French centers for the control and prevention of diseases, editor’s note), The main health agency in the country, the prevalence of autism cases has passed for children born in 1992 from 1 in 150 to 1 out of 36 for those born in 2012. An increase to be considered with caution due to progress made in diagnostics and that can explain their multiplication.
If to date there is no only identified cause, several environmental factors have been highlighted, such as a neuro-inflammation or the taking of certain drugs such as the anti-epileptic Désakine during pregnancy, as well as genetic predispositions.
