4. Autism in countries that don’t vaccinate
We are continuing our list of 10 autism facts and statistics: autism rates in Amish, countries that don’t vaccinate and more with a fact that even though immunization has helped the human race to battle against diseases which killed thousands of people in the past more and more people nowadays decide not to vaccinate their children due to the “theory” that vaccination (especially MMR) and development of autism are closely connected. Nigeria is among the countries with lowest rates of immunization; however, statistics show that 135 million are diagnosed with autism. It is very hard to determine what influences development of autism since it appears in both developing countries with high rates of immunization and in, for example, countries such as Nigeria, with low immunization rates.
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