"We need to identify the exposures that are causing this epidemic and compensate the families of the injured." USA TODAY has reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services for more information.

"To organize a large-scale U.S. effort on behalf of autism and autism epidemiology will take a lot of time," researcher Walter Zahorodny told Newsweek.

The judge overseeing the capital murder case of Bryan Kohberger has denied his lawyers' attempt to take the death penalty off the table.

Bryan Kohberger's autism diagnosis will not stop him from facing the death penalty if convicted in his quadruple murder trial, a judge ruled on Thursday.