Although there has been a drop in emergency room visits for vaping-related lung injuries, government officials emphasized new cases continue.
Vaping-related lung injuries peaked in September and are on the decline, federal officials said Friday, and the link to the additive vitamin E acetate in marijuana-based THC is growing stronger.
"Though we continue to receive reports of newly diagnosed patients, the level of new cases is greatly reduced and has been declining since a peak in September," said Anne Schuchat, the CDC's principal deputy director. The CDC has not ruled out other harmful substances and found a"persistent small proportion" of lung injury patients report using non-THC vaping products, Schuchat said.
Also on Friday, the FDA and Drug Enforcement Administration seized 44 websites marketing vaping cartridges containing THC as part of a federal-state effort to track supplies of illicit products. Most lung-injury patients reported obtaining THC cartridges from informal sources such as friends, family, street dealers or online marketers.
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