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...detailed report, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday, researchers combed through health and education records in 11 U.S. cities. In some sites, the rate of autism was as high as 12 cases per 1,000 children, but averaged across the country the final autism case rate was calculated at 9 per 1,000 children. That's compared to a national rate of 1 per 2,000 children prior to the 1980s, and 6 per 1,000 children as recently as the 1990s...
...Both estimates were in the low ranges of what the CDC originally thought was possible,” Lipsitch said...
...light of the study, Gharib said that it is possible that the CDC could downgrade the H1N1 virus’s threat level to seasonal flu status or to relax procedural guidelines...
...until then, Harvard will continue to follow CDC guidelines to manage the outbreaks on campus,” Gharib said...
Update: According to the most recent CDC estimates, released by health officials Thursday, about 10,000 Americans have died from H1N1 and 50 million - or one-sixth of the population - have been infected. The CDC says also that about 200,000 people have been sick enough to require hospitalization, and that most of them were adults under age 65. The new figures cover the first seven months of the pandemic, from April through mid-November, and represent a large increase over the previous estimates, which included data through mid-October and said H1N1 had killed 4,000 and infected...