SchaferAutismReport: CDC's Office of the Director: Autism May Result from Chemical Exposures

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CDC’s Office of the Director: Autism May Result from “Chemical

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By Kirby on ageofautism.com. is.gd/92Zz

On Saturday, November 15, I attended a

daylong forum in Minneapolis on autism in the Somali immigrant community

there, where the rate of autism among Somali children in the public schools

had been reported at 1 in 28 kids.

At the forum, Dr. Judy Punyko, an

epidemiologist for the State Department of Health, was expected to present

at least preliminary findings on the prevalence of autism among Somali

schoolchildren in Minnesota. The 80 or so Somali parents who attended were

disappointed, by all accounts, that Dr. Punyko had no way to tell them if

autism among their children was, as they strongly suspect, more common than

among non-Somalis the same age.

Dr. Punyko said she had conferred with

officials at the CDC on how to best measure the rate of autism in this

particular population, but that she was still waiting for data requested

from Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), even though she had put together a

panel of experts to examine the issue back in August. She said that MPS

would get her the data sometime in December, and that a report on the

prevalence issue should be ready in March, 2009.

A few days after the forum, I discovered two

things.

1) Back in July, Minneapolis Public School

officials had furnished data on autism in Somali and non-Somali speaking

students for the 2007-2008 school year to journalists, parents, and the

Minnesota Department of Health.

2) Officials at the CDC were scheduled to

listen to Dr. Punyko present “findings” on a possible “Somali autism

cluster” at the CDC in Atlanta on Tuesday, November 18. It seemed odd to me

that Punyko would be discussing her findings at the CDC, but did not

mention that fact three days earlier at the Somali autism forum in

Minneapolis. It also seemed odd that she would be presenting “findings” in

Atlanta, when she told us that MPS would not be

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