Pesticide Metabolite Exposure In Pregnant Women May Be Associated With An Increased Risk Of Babies Born With Autism, Study Indicates.

McClatchy (8/16, Magness) reports that “exposure to DDE, which forms after the now-banned pesticide DDT breaks down, can as much as double the chance that a woman gives birth to” a child with autism, research indicated. Newsweek (8/16, Gander) reports th...