RFK JR. says ‘autism destroys families’ while addressing rise in autism prevalence, causes

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be joined by officials on Wednesday to discuss the latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The report states that autism prevalence in the U.S. has increased from 1 in 36 children to 1 in 31.

Kennedy announced Thursday that the HHS is on the verge of identifying the cause of autism, stating that "by September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures."

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