Cases of child autism have increased 850 percent in Missouri

Sunday, April 25, 2004

The smell of burning flesh made Tammila Miller turn around. The Grassy, Mo., mom was on the phone in the kitchen waiting for her oven to preheat. She whirled around to find her autistic son, Michael, gripping the hot baking rack in the oven.

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