The number of fatalities jumped from 18 last week to 26 with 219 new cases diagnosed over the last week, the CDC said.
The CDC diagnosed 219 probably new cases diagnosed over the last week, bringing the total number of patients to 1,299.A smoker is engulfed by vapours as he smokes an electronic vaping machine.A deadly lung illness linked to vaping has taken the lives of more than two dozen people across 21 states as U.S. health officials struggle to identify a precise cause of the outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Health officials still don't know what is making people sick. Of the cases where doctors know what patients were using, roughly 76% of them said they vaped THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, while 13% percent said they exclusively used nicotine, according to the CDC.
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