According to a report released by the Ministry of Welfare, the number of Israelis diagnosed with autism has tripled over recent years; with 3,949 in 2007 to 14,269 in 2016. The report was released in advance of annual observance of World Autism Awareness Day.
The rise signals the number of Israelis with autism has tripled in the past decade, rising from 5.5 cases per 10,000 to 16.9 cases per 10,000. In the past year alone, the number has risen by 1.8 cases per 10,000 Israelis. For comparisons sake, there are 146 cases per 10,000 in the United States today as opposed to 4 cases per 10,000 in the 1960s the Center for Disease Control reports.
Minister of Welfare Chaim Katz reports that the overwhelming number of persons diagnosed are males, 80% and of the total number diagnosed with the illness, 80% are under the age of 24. While the increase is evident around Israel, the area with the largest number if the Greater Tel Aviv area. This some attribute to increased awareness and tools for early diagnoses in the central area of the country.
Some 80% of those diagnosed with autism are male and according to the ministry, the increase in the number of autism cases stems from better diagnostic tools and increased awareness. Other developed countries have seen a similar increase.
The ministry reports it has recently increased its budget to assist autistic citizens to integrate and to find suitable housing with total funding in 2018 to reach NIS 350 million. This includes hiring 110 new social workers who are dedicated solely to the autistic community.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Vaccination!
This article repeats the lie that the increased rates of autism are due to more awareness and better diagnosis. If this were true then where are all the adults from 20,30 and 40 years ago who have Autism??? Actually the lie of better diagnosis was concocted in order to cover up the exploding rate which is between 1 in 50 and 1 and in 68, and the real cause which is vaccines. According to the EPA the breakout year for the exploding rates of Autism was 1989 – 3 years after the passing of the 1986 vaccine injury act which absolved Pharmaceutical companies from product liability for vaccine injury.Once they no longer had to worry about liability they began producing more vaccines for more conditions and having them added to the schedule at earlier and earlier times in children’s lives. It is not just Autism though. We are also seeing an explosion in ADHD,OCD,Autoimmune disease,food allergy and many others. All of this has been amply demonstrated in the scientific literature as being caused by vaccines. Instead of blaming the real culprit the CDC has been trying to deflect responsibility and blame these epidemics on genetics and better diagnosis. There is no such thing as a genetic epidemic occurring naturally. Real Genetic diseases like Tay Sachs are extremely rare even prior to the decades of routine testing for them. Furthermore by denying the real cause of Autistic Disorder,PDD and ASD, you are withholding information about potential treatments which may be very effective in reversing the conditions.For those who wish to avail themselves on some of the scientific literature and potential treatments here is some reading materiel.1. The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
2. INOCULATED: How Science Lost Its Soul in Autism
By Kent Heckenlively, J.D.
Furthermore this issue is affecting the frum community in staggering ways that few have even contemplated. By virtue of the fact that it disproportionately affects boys. We need to question how much of the shidduch crisis is due to an overabundance of behavioral disturbances in Boys.How much of the Off the Derech crisis is due to ADHD and ASD. If a boy can not succeed in school because of these conditions what is the likelihood that he will stay frum. Does the recent surge in heroin addiction and other forms of drug abuse have anything to do with this problem. Could it be that Neurodevelopmental disorders like ASD and ADHD predispose a person to fall into addiction by virtue of altered brain chemistry and function?
what is the rate of increase of vaccinations?
I should have expected comment 1 before I saw it. Arye, do you get your information from your aluminum foil kippah?
To mir alumni:
In 1983 children four years and younger were recommended to get the following vaccines: DTP (five doses), Polio (four doses), MMR (one dose).
Here is the current recommended vaccine schedule for children four years and younger:
Hep B (three doses), DtaP (five doses), Rotavirus (three doses), HIB (four doses), PCV (four doses), Polio( (four doses), Influenza (five doses), Varicella (two doses), Hep A (two doses), MMR (two dose).
If you count each pathogen separately (i.e., MMR is really Mumps, Measles and Rubella), here are the totals:
In 1983, total number of pathogens: 22
In 2016, total number of pathogens: 48
Also pregnant women are offered three vaccines even though the manufacturers’ inserts state that the vaccines have not been tested for safety in pregnant women.
Additionally, newborn babies at birth are given the Hepatitis B vaccine.
There is a plethora of information online about vaccines. Do your own research. There are many parents who are delaying the vaccines to older ages, spacing them out – not giving too many at one visit, and/or declining some of them outright. (One important point to research – why the govt decided Hep B should be given at birth – you will see it does not apply to the frum population for the most part.)
I was told by a pediatrician that the reason so many vaccines are given at the two month, four month and six month visits is NOT because the baby needs them then, but rather because they have a captive mother and baby in the office and they do not know if the mother will be responsible enough to bring the baby back for vaccines at a later date.
Example: at the two month visit, a baby is given the following vaccines: Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (DTap), Polio, HIB, PCV, Rotavirus, Hep B. As an adult, would YOU want to get so many vaccines at one doctor visit?? This is repeated at the four month visit (without the Hep B), and repeated at the six month visit (without the HIB, but with the influenza vaccine instead).