The risk of autism is much higher among brothers

Researchers already knew that the odds that a child has autism increases if you have an older brother who has it. But even they suspected that the rate was as high as that indicated by a recent study published in the journal “Pediatrics.” Children with a brother with autism are 1 in 5 chance of...

Mexican dies in U.S. rabies

This is a 19-year-old migrant farm worker who was bitten on the heel by a bat in his native Michoacan. This happened ten days before coming to America to pick sugar cane plantation in Louisiana. No thought was serious and never received rabies vaccinations and fell ill a few weeks after being bitten. After ...