Good News Week in the tradition of Tom Lehrer?

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Autism is now booming in China.How they brought the good news (mercury vaccines are good news?) from USA to China We now have autism in China: Taizhou, China -- For nearly two years, Ma Chen and a group of her friends have run a volunteer effort to help children with autism. They opened three schools, raised $200,000 and brought in outside experts. Now the 35-year-old mother of an autistic girl wants to turn an overgrown plot of land into a working farm for the children when they grow up.But how and when did the 'good' news come to China?In 2000, their daughter, Miao, was born. But after two years, Miao seemed unable to interact with people. She could say only a few words and threw tantrums, hitting herself violently. The family went from hospital to hospital and finally found one able to make the diagnosis: autism.You then get the political position of the illness: In China, as in many developing countries, disabilities like autism were long ignored or considered taboo. According to traditional views, birth defects were a sign that parents hadn't lived a virtuous life. Some mentally disabled people found work in the fields, but often were shut in to spare the clan a loss of face.Then nearer the truth:That has led to a dearth of knowledge on the condition. After Miao was diagnosed, Ms. Ma couldn't get an answer on what autism was or how to treat it. You then get the growth of what will be another epidemic:Three years later, she reapplied. By then, autism was a recognized disorder. Autism has at last arrived in China 2008 a new epidemic illness.And what did the USA do with millions of mercury vaccines when Verstraeten found a proven link of mercury vaccines to autism in 1999?Who is the biggest vaccine company?Who works there?