Fw: A-Champ: New Autism Rate 1 in 88: What are the feds doing? Not much.

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Take Action: New Autism Rate 1 in 88: What are the feds doing? Not much.

New Autism Rate: 1 in 88Take Action!What are the Feds doing about it? Not much. Rumors are swirling that the federal government will release this Friday the next round of official autism prevalence statistics and the news will be grim, the “official†autism rate is expected to be 1 in 88, up from 1 in 110 in 2010, which was up from the 1 in 166 rate in 2008. Given the 4 to 1 ratio of boys to

girls, the rate for boys is probably in the neighborhood of 1 in 48. The autism rate has doubled in four years. This is a public health catastrophe. And what is the federal government doing

about this? Not much. Please click on the Take Action link to send an email to your Senators, Member of the House and President Obama and ask them what they intend to do about the growing catastrophe of the autism epidemic. The federal government can mobilize hundreds of thousands of health professionals and billions of dollars based on the mere reporting of a new strain of flu in a South East Asian jungle. They have done this three times in the last 10 years with SARS, swine flu and avian flu. But here’s how they respond to a epidemic destroying hundreds of thousands of lives: The federal autism research budget is the same now as it was in 2007. That means we are spending less for every case of autism now

than we were five years ago. The federal budget has increased by a trillion dollars a year since 2007, rising from $2.8 trillion to $3.8 trillion. That means we

are making proportionally less effort on autism now than 5 years ago. Money talks. Clearly, autism is not a priority of either Congress or the Obama administration.

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