Science

Investigators Rush to Trace Vaping Products Linked to Outbreak

MYSTERY

Doctors who saw patients with a mysterious lung illness in the past suspected vaping as the cause but didn’t know where to report such cases.

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By Sydney Lupkin and Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Kaiser Health News

It was the arrival of the second man in his early 20s gasping for air that alarmed Dr.

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