[techweenie]

I think you can attribute this to the change in the substance of "news" and of course, the Internet now lets us know about everything. Probably lots of kids likely died early in the prior decades, and if the diagnosis was made accurately, few outside the medical community and doctors knew about it.

I had a friend whose sister in law developed an allergy to plastic. They moved to the coast and with great difficulty, were able to eliminate plastic from their environment. But she could almost never leave the immediate area of the house. I mean, think about how pervasive plastic is in our lives.