What if autism turned out to be caused by a virus?  If autism turned out to be caused by a virus, then wouldn't it be ironic if there was eventually a preventative vaccine, you know, since there is so much controversy over a possible vaccination-autism connection. 

There are all kinds of new, scary viruses and yuckies out there.  There's Ebola, Hanta, SARS, AIDS, bird flu, Lyme disease, West Nile Virus, CJD (Mad Cow), and a bunch of nasty stuff related to bat guano.  A couple of years ago, my husband's forty-something aunt, who lives about an hour from us, got West Nile Virus and was in the hospital for 6 months, most of that in an intensive care unit.  It caused a lot of nerve damage and she's still mostly in a wheelchair.  We all got eaten alive by mosquitos that year.  What if an exposure to something like a West Nile Virus mosquito bite affects children (and their developing brains) differently than adults?

Sort of along this topic, I'm going to the LIA Lyme-Autism Connection conference in Indian Wells CA at the end of June so I'll take notes and report back to all of ya here on the blog.  There seems to be a theory that a person need not be bitten by a carrier tick to contract Lyme or syptoms of Lyme disease.  I am so interested to find out more about this.  It's very bio-medical, for sure.