Seven people have died so far.
Another person has died from complications related to the vaping-related lung illness reported across the country in recent weeks, California health officials said this week, marking the seventh such death in the nation — and the second in that state.
The CDC said Monday it had activated its Emergency Operations Center, which gathers experts to monitor and respond to public-health events, to “enhance operations and provide additional support to CDC staff” and boost inter-agency response to the lung-injury probe. The agency said it was working alongside the Food and Drug Administration to gather patient information and test substances.
Health officials haven’t yet identified a specific cause, product or substance that unite these cases, but have advised refraining from vaping or using e-cigarettes until more information becomes known. The CDC has also urged people not to modify vaping products or buy them off the street. Much of the current conversation has centered around youth vaping amid heightened scrutiny of Juul. Just 1.5% of high-school students used e-cigarettes in 2011, compared to 20.8% in 2018, according to the CDC; use among middle schoolers rose from 0.6% to 4.9% over the same period. The soaring use among minors is likely due to “the recent popularity of e-cigarettes shaped like a USB flash drive, such as JUUL,” the CDC has suggested.
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