The number of vaping-related lung illness cases has surged from 380 to 530, according to the CDC.
More than half of the people who have fallen ill are younger than 25, with 16% of all the patients younger than 18, CDC principal deputy director Anne Schuchat said, and three-quarters of the patients are male.
Health officials are struggling to figure out what's making people sick. Some patients are reluctant to disclose what they were vaping, especially THC, which is illegal in most states. People are using an array of products and no one product, brand or substance has been linked to all the cases. "That's why our work includes collecting critical details about the products or substances involved, where they were purchased and how they were being used," Mitch Zeller, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products, said on the call.
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