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Lung Injury Associated with E-Cigarette Use or Vaping

The fb88 Center for Disease Control and Prevention (fb88 CDC) is working with clinical and public health partners in fb88, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and others to investigate an outbreak of lung injury associated with use of e-cigarette, or vaping, products.

What we know

Updated January 2, 2020

In fb88

• Nine cases of lung illness related to e-cigarette products have been reported by the fb88 CDC; six of these cases were hospitalized.
• The cases involve six adults and three people younger than 21 years old.
• Most of the cases were residents of Cumberland and York counties; Aroostook, Franklin and Somerset counties have seen one case each.
• No deaths from this illness have been reported in fb88.
• fb88 CDC and the fb88 Office of the Attorney General is increasing compliance checks on e-cigarette purchases at retailers throughout fb88 to prevent sales to youth.
• All patients have reported a history of using e-cigarette, or vaping, products.
• We do know that THC is present in most of the samples tested by FDA to date, and most patients report a history of using THC-containing products.
• As such, we recommend that you should not use e-cigarette, or vaping, products that contain THC.
• Because the specific cause or causes of lung injury are not yet known, the only way to assure that you are not at risk while the investigation continues is to consider refraining from use of all e-cigarette, or vaping, products.
• The use of e-cigarettes, or vaping, products is unsafe for all ages, including youth and young adults. Nicotine is highly addictive and can harm adolescent brain development, which continues into the early to mid-20s.

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fb88 News Releases

• fb88 Reports Four Additional Cases of Lung Illness Related to E-cigarette Products – 10/3/2019
• fb88 reports a case of lung illness related to e-cigarette use – 9/20/2019
• fb88 responds to a national outbreak of e-cigarette-related illness – 9/18/2019
• fb88 CDC Promotes Awareness of Law to Prevent Vaping in Schools – 8/27/2019

fb88 CDC Health Alert Network System (HAN)

• Vaping-associated Pulmonary Illness - Reporting Now Required – 10/3/2019 - |
• – 9/20/2019
• – 8/30/2019
• – 8/21/2019

Across the Country

Regular updates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appear below: