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The medical officer said IllinoisJennifer Leiden: "Yesterday we received a report on the death of an adult hospitalized after a severe respiratory crisis due to smoking.For electronic cigarettes".
She declined to disclose the sex of the patient, but said the patients, who had been treated in this state until now, were between 17 and 38 years old.
Since the end of June, health authorities have recorded 193 possible cases among Acute lung disease; Associated with the use of electronic cigarettes in 22 US state, According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The cause remains unknown, but all patients have recently used electronic cigarettes to smoke nicotine or cannabis.
A health department official from Illinois, Ngozi Ezeki, said "The severity of their symptoms is alarming and we must warn that the use of electronic cigarettes can pose a health risk."
Elena Arias, Deputy Director, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases, Centers for Disease Control Prevention, although the cases seemed to be similar "It is not clear if there is a common cause behind these cases".
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"Yesterday, we learned of the death of an adult taken to hospital after a severe respiratory crisis after smoking an electronic cigarette," said Jennifer Leiden, Illinois Medical Officer.
She declined to disclose the sex of the patient, but said the patients, who had been treated in this state until now, were between 17 and 38 years old.
Since the end of June, health authorities have recorded 193 possible cases of acute pneumonia associated with the use of electronic cigarettes in 22 US states, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The cause remains unknown, but all patients have recently used electronic cigarettes to smoke nicotine or cannabis.
"The severity of these symptoms is worrisome and we must warn that the use of electronic cigarettes can be a health risk," said Ngozi Iziki, head of the Illinois Department of Health.
But Elena Arias, deputy director of the Department of Noncommunicable Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that although the cases seemed similar, "it is not clear that there is a common cause for these cases" .
