An Infamous Chemical Has Been Strongly Linked To Autism
(World News Science)

The infamous pesticide DDT has been further implicated as a possible trigger for the development of autism spectrum disorder by an international group of epidemiologists and psychiatrists studying children who were exposed in utero. Their findings, now published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, present the first evidence of a link between the and the neurological condition that was drawn from cases where the mother was confirmed to have DDT in her body - past research has relied on estimated exposures calculated by each woman´s residential...