The Minister of American Health, Robert Kennedy Jr, promised, Thursday, April 10, that a study conducted by the health authorities would make it possible to establish “From here to September” the causes of what he describes as“Autism epidemic”. “We have launched research work that will involve hundreds of scientists from around the world. By September, we will know what caused the autism epidemic. And we will be able to eliminate these factors ”said RFK JR during a government meeting at the White House.
An announcement that US President Donald Trump, present in the room, immediately praised. “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, a neurode development disorder, recorded in the country in recent years.
A subject dear both to the Republican President and his Minister of Health, the Robert Kennedy Jr vaccinosceptic, who have both suggested several years in recent years the disputed idea that vaccines could be responsible for it.
Progress made in diagnostics
RFK JR, a disputed personality, has repeatedly established 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.
Despite the existence of these elements, he ordered in March the holding of a new investigation on the subject. Solicited by the Agency France-Presse (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, the main health agency in the country, the prevalence of autism cases thus increased from 1 in 150 for children born in 1992 to 1 out of 36 for those born in 2012. An increase to be considered with caution due to the progress made in diagnoses and which 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 antiepileptic Désakine during pregnancy, as well as genetic predispositions.
