Of course it's our fault..
Mother's antibodies may contribute to autism
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While a mother of an autistic child is pregnant, she develops an immune response to her fetus's brain. As part of that immune response, her body develops antibodies that can attack the fetal brain. Now, in new research in mice, scientists have discovered that the mother's fetal brain antibodies are circulated back to the fetus through the placenta, possibly triggering inflammation in the brain that could eventually result in autism.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE53N55320090425?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
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I don’t think they should have published that. Not in that wording anyway as it is not beneficial to anyone least of all the poor mother’s.
Sorry, that should have read mothers’