Pneumonia -- Canada
A Canadian teenager developed a life-threatening condition known as "popcorn lung" after several months of intense vaping, in the 1st medical case linking this chronic lung disease to e-cigarette use.
Popcorn lung, or popcorn worker's lung, is so-called because the condition was 1st documented in 2000 among microwave-popcorn factory workers who were exposed to the flavouring chemical diacetyl. The disease, more formally known as bronchiolitis obliterans, has also been documented among
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6794630&promed&0
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