Autism shown higher in children living in rainy areas

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

A study of kids in California, Oregon and Washington suggests an environmental trigger to the disorder and calls for research to determine possible explanations. Children in California, Oregon and Washington are more likely to develop autism if they lived in counties with higher levels of annual rainfall when they were 3 or younger, suggesting that something about wet weather may trigger the disorder, according to a study released Monday.

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