Yelba Castellon-Lopez is getting regular check-ups before she
gives birth to her first child. She knows it's important to stay
healthy for herself and her unborn baby. "I do everything that I
can not to get sick. I wash my hands a lot, I use hand
sanitizer, I got the flu shot." A new study suggests women who
get sick with the flu or fever during pregnancy may have an
increased chance of having a child with autism. The Danish study
looked at nearly 97,000 children and found kids had twice the
risk of being diagnosed with autism before age 3 if their mom
got the flu. The risk increased three fold if the mother had a
fever for more than a week while pregnant. Dr. Denise Sur is
with UCLA Medical Center. "Common sense would say it wouldn't be
good for the baby to be exposed to high temperatures or a virus
that is in your blood stream." But, researchers say the overall
risk is still very low and caution the results are *very*
preliminary and could be due to chance. "Their own conclusions
from this study is that the