Over a dozen teenagers and young adults in Illinois and Wisconsin have suffered breathing problems that required hospitalization after “vaping” — that is, using electronic vaporizer machines that turn oil into an inhaled vapor.
As CNN reports, 11 young people in Wisconsin have been hospitalized recently with severe lung disease, as have three in Illinois. All presented with fatigue, chest pain, and shortness of breath. So bad were the youths’ breathing problems that several required assistance to breathe, including having to go to the Intensive Care Unit and be placed on ventilators.
The symptoms appear to point to some sort of pulmonary infection, but tests have come back negative, says Thomas Haupt, a respiratory disease epidemiologist with Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services. “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.”
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