Calling it a “breakthrough,” the CDC says it found vitamin E acetate in all 29 samples of lung fluid from patients with vaping-related lung injury.
. But it also cautions that it needs more answers to fully explain the mysterious illness that has sickened 2,051 people and killed 40.
Schuchat says the findings do not rule out the possibility that other substances could also be playing a role in the illness, known as EVALI . More research is also needed to prove cause and effect, she says. Many groups studying the outbreak have mentioned vitamin E, she says, but have not found it in every single sample as the CDC did. Even so, she cautions that"Just because the vitamin E is there doesn't mean it is the cause; it might be something that's traveling with it."
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