Health officials in Milwaukee have asked everyone in the city to stop “vaping” — that is, using electronic vaporizers — effective immediately, after dozens of people have turned up in emergency rooms with lung ailments after doing so. Other people have gotten sick after after so-called “dabbing” — that is, heating a concentrated form of marijuana and inhaling the vapor.
As CNN reports, at least 16 people have turned up in Wisconsin hospitals with “chemical pneumonia,” a lung disease brought on by inhaling certain chemicals. The common thread in the reported illnesses seems to be the inhalation of vapor, whether by “vaping” nicotine or cannabis.
Thomas Haupt of Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services says that health officials are still trying to piece together what happened.
“The only thing at this point is vaping, but we don’t know what they vaped, where they got their vaping liquids. All this needs to be determined at this point,” Haupt said.
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