As required by law, the NSA ended its wide - ranging
surveillance program by 11:59 p.m. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday) and expects to
have the new, scaled - back
system in place by then, the White House said.
The number of diagnoses «
have been steadily climbing» from one
in 150 since the CDC's national
surveillance system was put into
place in 2000, «so I guess I shouldn't be that surprised» by the new data, says Sarah Spence, a neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital.