Three people have died in the nationwide outbreak of deadly lung injuries connected to black market vaping liquids.
Daniel Fox of WakeMed Health & Hospitals in North Carolina warned e-cigarette users against “vaping cartridges purchased off the street where the substances in them are unclear,” or where the ingredients are not ones intended by manufacturers, based on cases in that state.
A series of reports from Wisconsin and Illinois, where the initial cases of the sudden onset of difficult breathing, fever, and nausea — pneumonia-like symptoms — in teens and young adults first appeared this summer, as well as Utah and California, were released in the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday as well. The reports described almost 80 patients with similar lung injuries tied to sudden damage in their lungs following vaping.
“Although more investigation is needed to determine the vaping agent or agents responsible, there is clearly an epidemic that begs for an urgent response,” David Christiani of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health wrote in a New England Journal of Medicine editorial on the cases released on Friday.
State health officials described suspected cases beginning as early as April of this year."No consistent e-cigarette product, substance, or additive has been identified in all cases, nor has any one product or substance been conclusively linked to pulmonary disease in patients," concluded a
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