Study appears to show link between mother having flu or lengthy fever during pregnancy and autism

A Danish study recently reported in the journal Pediatrics aimed to determine if there was a link between activation of a pregnant mothers immune system and the subsequent diagnosis of autism in the offspring.  Mothers of nearly 100,000 children were inteviewed by telephone during and following pregnancy and their responses were correlated with a central registry which identified approximately 1,000 children in the group that were later diagnosed with autism.  The results of the study suggested that influenza and fevers lasting longer than one week may be correlated with a two to three fold increase in the likelihood of developing autism.  Read more about it at usatoday.com here:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/12/autism-pregnancy-flu/1693083/
Find the abstract of the article in the journal Pediatrics at pediatrics.aappulications.org here:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/6/e1447.abstract?sid=ecec01e9-8807-452b-8545-5fae4c255138